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title: At last, however, he was lucky enough to come upon puss fast asleep… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, however, he was lucky enough to come upon puss fast asleep and with his tail conveniently spread out. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 10

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At last, however, he was lucky enough to come upon puss fast asleep and with his tail conveniently spread out.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** be, come, spread out · **To what, where:** puss, last

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg503:3:10
# text = At last, however, he was lucky enough to come upon puss fast asleep and with his tail conveniently spread out.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	puss	puss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	conveniently	conveniently	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | king |  |  |  |  | enough, however, lucky *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  | puss and king's tail |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon puss=Location |
| 3 | **spread out** | present |  |  |  | last |  | conveniently *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |

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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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