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title: PREFACE THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES THE PRINCESS MAYBLOSSOM SORIA… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: PREFACE THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES THE PRINCESS MAYBLOSSOM SORIA MORIA CASTLE THE DEATH OF KOSHCHEI THE DEATHLESS THE BLACK THIEF AND KNIGHT OF THE GLEN. Who acts: PREFACE, KOSHCHEI. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Red Fairy Book, Opening, sentence 5

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PREFACE THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES THE PRINCESS MAYBLOSSOM SORIA MORIA CASTLE THE DEATH OF KOSHCHEI THE DEATHLESS THE BLACK THIEF AND KNIGHT OF THE GLEN.

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**Who acts:** PREFACE, KOSHCHEI · **What happens:** castle, die · **To what, where:** DEATH

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (PREFACE, KOSHCHEI), 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:pg540:1:5
# text = PREFACE THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES THE PRINCESS MAYBLOSSOM SORIA MORIA CASTLE THE DEATH OF KOSHCHEI THE DEATHLESS THE BLACK THIEF AND KNIGHT OF THE GLEN.
1	PREFACE	preface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	TWELVE	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	DANCING	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	PRINCESSES	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
6	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	PRINCESS	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	MAYBLOSSOM	MAYBLOSSOM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	SORIA	SORIA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	MORIA	MORIA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
11	CASTLE	castle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	DEATH	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	KOSHCHEI	KOSHCHEI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	DEATHLESS	DEATHLESS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	BLACK	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	THIEF	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
21	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	KNIGHT	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	GLEN	GLEN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **castle** | present | PREFACE | the DEATH of KOSHCHEI |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** |  | KOSHCHEI |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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