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title: And so she did; and when the cat drove the cart up to the palace gat… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And so she did; and when the cat drove the cart up to the palace gate, lashing the horse furiously with her tail, and the king and queen saw their lost daughter sitting beside her, they declared that no reward could be too great for the person who had brought her out of the giant’s hands. Who acts: 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 51

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And so she did; and when the cat drove the cart up to the palace gate, lashing the horse furiously with her tail, and the king and queen saw their lost daughter sitting beside her, they declared that no reward could be too great for the person who had brought her out of the giant’s hands.

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**Who acts:** Kisa, cat, king, lost daughter, reward · **What happens:** do, drive up, lash, see, lose, sit · **To what, where:** cart, palace gate, horse, lost daughter, person, hands

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kisa, cat, king, lost daughter), 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:pg3282:28:51
# text = And so she did; and when the cat drove the cart up to the palace gate, lashing the horse furiously with her tail, and the king and queen saw their lost daughter sitting beside her, they declared that no reward could be too great for the person who had brought her out of the giant’s hands.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	lashing	lash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	furiously	furiously	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
37	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
43	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	44	det	_	_
44	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
45	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	cop	_	_
47	too	too	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	advcl	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
52	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	54	nsubj:pass	_	_
53	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	acl:relcl	_	_
55	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	out	out	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	’s	's	PART	POS	_	59	case	_	_
61	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Kisa |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drive up** | past | the cat | the cart |  | the palace gate |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cart=Theme to gate=Trajectory |
| 3 | **lash** | gerund | the cat *not said here* |  | the horse |  |  | with Kisa's tail; furiously *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Destination with tail=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | the king and queen | king's lost daughter |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus |
| 5 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sit** | gerund | king's lost daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beside Kisa | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location |
| 7 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | could | no reward |  |  |  |  | for the person; great *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | the person |  | the giant's hands |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination she=Theme |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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