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title: Each prince and princess rode in a splendid carriage; the horses wer… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Each prince and princess rode in a splendid carriage; the horses were decked with plumes of feathers, and glittered with gold. Who acts: prince. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 14

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Each prince and princess rode in a splendid carriage; the horses were decked with plumes of feathers, and glittered with gold.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** ride, deck, glitter · **To what, where:** splendid carriage, horses

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg503:25:14
# text = Each prince and princess rode in a splendid carriage; the horses were decked with plumes of feathers, and glittered with gold.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	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	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	decked	deck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	plumes	plume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | each prince and princess |  |  | a splendid carriage |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **deck** | past · passive |  | the horses |  |  |  | with plumes of feathers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with plume=Theme |
| 3 | **glitter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with gold | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gold=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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