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title: Hither the princess would come each evening towards sunset, attended… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hither the princess would come each evening towards sunset, attended by her ladies, and gather herself the flowers that were to adorn her rooms. Who acts: princess, flowers. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 18

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Hither the princess would come each evening towards sunset, attended by her ladies, and gather herself the flowers that were to adorn her rooms.

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**Who acts:** princess, flowers · **What happens:** come, attend, gather, adorn · **To what, where:** sunset, princess, rooms

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, flowers), 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:pg3027:37:18
# text = Hither the princess would come each evening towards sunset, attended by her ladies, and gather herself the flowers that were to adorn her rooms.
1	Hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	adorn	adorn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | would | the princess |  |  |  | evening; sunset | hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **attend** | participle |  | sunset *not said here* |  |  |  | by princess's ladies | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by lady=Theme |
| 3 | **gather** | infinitive | the princess *not said here* | princess |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary flower=Theme |
| 4 | **adorn** | past | the flowers | princess's rooms |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=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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