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title: At the same time a lady of majestic port and air advanced as far as… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 44

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At the same time a lady of majestic port and air advanced as far as the porch, attended by a large troop of ladies, so finely dressed and beautiful that it was difficult to distinguish which was the mistress.

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**What happens:** advance, attend, dress, be, distinguish · **To what, where:** air, majestic port, lady, mistress

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg503:50:44
# text = At the same time a lady of majestic port and air advanced as far as the porch, attended by a large troop of ladies, so finely dressed and beautiful that it was difficult to distinguish which was the mistress.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	majestic	majestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	advanced	advance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	porch	porch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	finely	finely	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	expl	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	advcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	csubj	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **advance** | participle |  | air *not said here* |  |  |  | as the porch | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **attend** | participle |  | majestic port and air *not said here* |  |  |  | by a large troop of ladies | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by troop=Theme |
| 3 | **dress** | participle |  | a lady of majestic port and air *not said here* |  |  |  | finely *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | difficult *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **distinguish** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | the mistress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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