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title: After them came the youngest prince, and last of all the crystal cha… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After them came the youngest prince, and last of all the crystal chair, at which everybody looked with admiration and curiosity. Who acts: youngest prince, everybody. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 15

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After them came the youngest prince, and last of all the crystal chair, at which everybody looked with admiration and curiosity.

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**Who acts:** youngest prince, everybody · **What happens:** come, look

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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 (youngest prince, everybody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg503:1878`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:25:15
# text = After them came the youngest prince, and last of all the crystal chair, at which everybody looked with admiration and curiosity.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	last	last	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
18	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	nsubj	_	_
19	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the youngest prince and the crystal chair |  |  |  | after brothers *= brother* |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | everybody |  |  |  |  | with admiration and curiosity; at the crystal chair | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at which=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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