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title: A favoring breeze was carrying them toward the island where the quee… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A favoring breeze was carrying them toward the island where the queen of the mice was awaiting them. Who acts: favoring breeze, queen. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 204

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A favoring breeze was carrying them toward the island where the queen of the mice was awaiting them.

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**Who acts:** favoring breeze, queen · **What happens:** favor, carry, await · **To what, where:** mice

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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 (favoring breeze, queen), 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:pg503:2:204
# text = A favoring breeze was carrying them toward the island where the queen of the mice was awaiting them.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	favoring	favor	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	awaiting	await	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **favor** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **carry** | past · progressive | a favoring breeze | mice *= mouse* |  |  |  | toward the island | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **await** | past · progressive | the queen of the mice | mice *= mouse* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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