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title: The King caused an escort suitable to her rank to be got ready for h… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King caused an escort suitable to her rank to be got ready for her, and she dressed herself splendidly, not forgetting anything that could make her more beautiful. Who acts: King, Miranda. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, with its dependency tree a
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 67

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The King caused an escort suitable to her rank to be got ready for her, and she dressed herself splendidly, not forgetting anything that could make her more beautiful.

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**Who acts:** King, Miranda · **What happens:** cause, get, dress, not forget, make · **To what, where:** escort, Miranda, anything

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Miranda), 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:pg503:31:67
# text = The King caused an escort suitable to her rank to be got ready for her, and she dressed herself splendidly, not forgetting anything that could make her more beautiful.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	escort	escort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
13	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
25	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	obj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | the King | a escort |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition escort=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive · passive | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 3 | **dress** | past | Miranda | Miranda |  |  |  | splendidly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **forget** | gerund | Miranda *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | could |  | Miranda |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |

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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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