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title: And even as he spoke there flashed past him a huge lioness, followed… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And even as he spoke there flashed past him a huge lioness, followed by a lady and a beautiful young maid mounted on fairy horses. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 106

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And even as he spoke there flashed past him a huge lioness, followed by a lady and a beautiful young maid mounted on fairy horses.

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**What happens:** flash, follow, mount · **To what, where:** huge lioness, beautiful young maid

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:28:106
# text = And even as he spoke there flashed past him a huge lioness, followed by a lady and a beautiful young maid mounted on fairy horses.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	flashed	flash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	past	past	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lioness	lioness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flash** | past · passive |  | a huge lioness |  |  |  | past ring | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: lioness=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | participle |  | a huge lioness *not said here* |  |  |  | by a lady and a beautiful young maid | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by lady=Location |
| 3 | **mount** | participle |  | a beautiful young maid *not said here* |  |  |  | on fairy horses | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on horse=Destination |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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