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title: The prince advanced and saluted it; it proudly drooped its head and… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince advanced and saluted it; it proudly drooped its head and forelocks and paced to the platform. Who acts: prince advanced, way. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 6

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The prince advanced and saluted it; it proudly drooped its head and forelocks and paced to the platform.

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**Who acts:** prince advanced, way · **What happens:** salute, droop, forelock, pace · **To what, where:** way, head, platform

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince advanced, way), 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:pg3282:4:6
# text = The prince advanced and saluted it; it proudly drooped its head and forelocks and paced to the platform.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	advanced	advanced	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	saluted	salute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	drooped	droop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	forelocks	forelock	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	paced	pace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	platform	platform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **salute** | past | the prince advanced | way |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **droop** | past | way | way's head |  |  |  | proudly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme |
| 3 | **forelock** | present | way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pace** | participle | way *not said here* |  |  | the platform |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to platform=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 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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