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title: Her chariot was of mother-of-pearl, drawn by six dun-colored griffin… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her chariot was of mother-of-pearl, drawn by six dun-colored griffins just brought from the other side of the world, and she was attended by a number of guards in splendid uniforms, who were all at least eight feet high and had come from far and near to ride in the Princess’s train. Who acts: chario
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 68

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Her chariot was of mother-of-pearl, drawn by six dun-colored griffins just brought from the other side of the world, and she was attended by a number of guards in splendid uniforms, who were all at least eight feet high and had come from far and near to ride in the Princess’s train.

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**Who acts:** chariot, number · **What happens:** be, draw, color, bring, attend, come · **To what, where:** pearl, other side, Miranda, eight feet, train

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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 (chariot, number), 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:pg503:31:68
# text = Her chariot was of mother-of-pearl, drawn by six dun-colored griffins just brought from the other side of the world, and she was attended by a number of guards in splendid uniforms, who were all at least eight feet high and had come from far and near to ride in the Princess’s train.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
14	dun	dun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	griffins	griffin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	uniforms	uniform	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
43	all	all	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	46	nmod	_	_
46	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
47	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl:unmarked	_	_
48	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	conj	_	_
52	from	from	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	51	obl	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	near	near	ADV	RB	_	53	conj	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	advcl	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	’s	's	PART	POS	_	60	case	_	_
62	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Miranda's chariot |  |  |  |  | of pearl | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | participle |  | pearl *not said here* |  |  |  | by six colored griffins | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring** | past |  |  |  | the other side of the world |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from side=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **attend** | past · passive | a number of guards in splendid uniforms | Miranda |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Goal |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | eight feet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **come** | past · perfect | a number of guards in splendid uniforms *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from far=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **ride** | to-infinitive | a number of guards in splendid uniforms *not said here* |  |  | the Princess's train |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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