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title: The one croaked: “Ah, ha! so he’s bringing the Princess of the Golde… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The one croaked: “Ah, ha! so he’s bringing the Princess of the Golden Roof home.” Who acts: one, Trusty. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 64

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The one croaked: “Ah, ha! so he’s bringing the Princess of the Golden Roof home.”

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**Who acts:** one, Trusty · **What happens:** croak, bring · **To what, where:** Princess

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, Trusty), 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:pg503:41:64
# text = The one croaked: “Ah, ha! so he’s bringing the Princess of the Golden Roof home.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	croaked	croak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Roof	Roof	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **croak** | past | the one |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Trusty |  | the Princess of the Golden Roof home |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination |

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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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