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description: When she stepped from the boat and the escort sent by the King of the Peacocks caught sight of her, they were so surprised that they could not say a single word. Who acts: Rosette, escort, King. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 151

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When she stepped from the boat and the escort sent by the King of the Peacocks caught sight of her, they were so surprised that they could not say a single word.

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**Who acts:** Rosette, escort, King · **What happens:** step, send, catch, be, not say, sight · **To what, where:** boat, escort, sight, single word, Rosette · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosette, escort, King), 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:pg540:11:151
# text = When she stepped from the boat and the escort sent by the King of the Peacocks caught sight of her, they were so surprised that they could not say a single word.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	escort	escort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
10	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Peacocks	Peacock	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | past | Rosette |  |  | the boat |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from boat=Trajectory |
| 2 | **send** | participle |  | the escort *not said here* |  |  |  | by the King of the Peacocks | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **catch** | past | the escort | sight of Rosette |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | King |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | could | King | a single word |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | Rosette |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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