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title: At length it dropped straight down to its own place, where the kind… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length it dropped straight down to its own place, where the kind prince was welcomed by the young birds and most hospitably entertained. Who acts: earth, young birds. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 136

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At length it dropped straight down to its own place, where the kind prince was welcomed by the young birds and most hospitably entertained.

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**Who acts:** earth, young birds · **What happens:** drop, welcome · **To what, where:** length, kind prince

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, young birds), 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:pg3282:5:136
# text = At length it dropped straight down to its own place, where the kind prince was welcomed by the young birds and most hospitably entertained.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	welcomed	welcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	24	advmod	_	_
24	hospitably	hospitably	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	entertained	entertained	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | past | earth |  |  | length |  | to earth's own place; down *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent at length=Destination to place=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **welcome** | past · passive | the young birds | the kind prince |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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