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title: They soon met the King, who was driving about in a beautiful little… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They soon met the King, who was driving about in a beautiful little golden carriage which glittered with diamonds, and was drawn at full speed by twelve peacocks. Who acts: Cockchafers, King, beautiful little golden carriage, twelve peacocks. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 82

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They soon met the King, who was driving about in a beautiful little golden carriage which glittered with diamonds, and was drawn at full speed by twelve peacocks.

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**Who acts:** Cockchafers, King, beautiful little golden carriage, twelve peacocks · **What happens:** meet, drive, glitter, draw · **To what, where:** King, beautiful little golden carriage, full speed

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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 (Cockchafers, King, beautiful little golden carriage, twelve peacocks), 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:pg540:11:82
# text = They soon met the King, who was driving about in a beautiful little golden carriage which glittered with diamonds, and was drawn at full speed by twelve peacocks.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | Cockchafers *= cockchafer* | the King |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **drive** | past · progressive | the King |  |  | a beautiful little golden carriage |  | about *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **glitter** | past | a beautiful little golden carriage |  |  |  |  | with diamonds | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with diamond=Theme |
| 4 | **draw** | past · passive | twelve peacocks |  |  | full speed |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP 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 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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