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title: His servants obeyed him, and very soon in came an enchantingly hands… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His servants obeyed him, and very soon in came an enchantingly handsome young prince, dressed in rich silk, ornamented with pearls and diamonds. Who acts: servants, handsome young prince. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 112

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His servants obeyed him, and very soon in came an enchantingly handsome young prince, dressed in rich silk, ornamented with pearls and diamonds.

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**Who acts:** servants, handsome young prince · **What happens:** obey, come, dress, ornament · **To what, where:** palace, handsome young prince, rich silk

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, handsome young prince), 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:pg503:2:112
# text = His servants obeyed him, and very soon in came an enchantingly handsome young prince, dressed in rich silk, ornamented with pearls and diamonds.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	obeyed	obey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	enchantingly	enchantingly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	ornamented	ornament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obey** | past | palace's servants | palace |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | a handsome young prince |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dress** | participle |  | a handsome young prince *not said here* |  | rich silk |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ornament** | participle |  | rich silk *not said here* |  |  |  | with pearls and diamonds | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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