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title: The prince and princess went with the rest, and by the time all were… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince and princess went with the rest, and by the time all were safe on the lawn, down came the building, and made the ground tremble for miles round. Who acts: prince, all, building. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree an
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 28

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The prince and princess went with the rest, and by the time all were safe on the lawn, down came the building, and made the ground tremble for miles round.

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**Who acts:** prince, all, building · **What happens:** go, be, come, make · **To what, where:** lawn, ground tremble

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, all, building), 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:pg3454:14:28
# text = The prince and princess went with the rest, and by the time all were safe on the lawn, down came the building, and made the ground tremble for miles round.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	tremble	tremble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
33	round	round	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the prince and princess |  |  |  |  | with the rest | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with rest=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is** | past | all |  |  | the lawn | time | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | the building |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past | the prince and princess *not said here* | the ground tremble |  |  |  | for miles; round *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent tremble=Product for mile=Asset |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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