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title: The Princess stepped into it, much amused at such a new kind of carr… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess stepped into it, much amused at such a new kind of carriage, the King of the Sheep took his place beside her, and the goats ran away with them at full speed, and only stopped when they reached a cavern, the entrance to which was blocked by a great stone. Who acts: Princess, Sheep, goats
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 91

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The Princess stepped into it, much amused at such a new kind of carriage, the King of the Sheep took his place beside her, and the goats ran away with them at full speed, and only stopped when they reached a cavern, the entrance to which was blocked by a great stone.

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**Who acts:** Princess, Sheep, goats, great stone · **What happens:** step, amuse, take, run away, stop, reach · **To what, where:** chariot, new kind, King, full speed, cavern

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Sheep, goats, great stone), 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:pg503:30:91
# text = The Princess stepped into it, much amused at such a new kind of carriage, the King of the Sheep took his place beside her, and the goats ran away with them at full speed, and only stopped when they reached a cavern, the entrance to which was blocked by a great stone.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	amused	amuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	13	det:predet	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	only	only	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
42	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	44	mark	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	cavern	cavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	obl	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	blocked	block	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	acl:relcl	_	_
54	by	by	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | past | the Princess |  |  | chariot |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination |
| 2 | **amuse** | participle | the Princess *not said here* |  |  | such new kind of carriage |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **take** | past | the Sheep | the King |  |  |  | beside Miranda | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 4 | **run away** | past | the goats |  |  | full speed |  | with Princesses *= princess*; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory |
| 5 | **stop** | past | the Sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **reach** | past | goats *= goat* | a cavern |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cavern=Theme |
| 7 | **block** | past · passive | a great stone |  |  |  |  | to the entrance | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |

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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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