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title: It was well known for full twenty miles round that there lived in th… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 23

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It was well known for full twenty miles round that there lived in the castle of Beloeil twelve princesses of wonderful beauty, and as proud as they were beautiful, and who were besides so very sensitive and of such truly royal blood, that they would have felt at once the presence of a pea in their beds, even if the mattresses had been laid over it.

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**Who acts:** princesses · **What happens:** know, live, be, feel, lay · **To what, where:** bundle, castle, presence, mattresses

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princesses), 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:pg540:2:23
# text = It was well known for full twenty miles round that there lived in the castle of Beloeil twelve princesses of wonderful beauty, and as proud as they were beautiful, and who were besides so very sensitive and of such truly royal blood, that they would have felt at once the presence of a pea in their beds, even if the mattresses had been laid over it.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	round	round	ADP	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	Beloeil	Beloeil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	besides	beside	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	very	very	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
42	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
47	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
48	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	aux	_	_
50	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
51	at	at	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
62	even	even	ADV	RB	_	68	advmod	_	_
63	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	68	mark	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	68	nsubj:pass	_	_
66	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	68	aux	_	_
67	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	68	aux:pass	_	_
68	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	conj	_	_
69	over	over	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
70	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	68	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | bundle |  |  |  | for full twenty miles; well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **live** | past |  |  |  | the castle of Beloeil twelve princesses of wonderful beauty; there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | princesses *= princess* |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | beside, sensitive *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** | would · perfect | princesses *= princess* |  |  | the presence of a pea |  | in princesses's beds | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in bed=Attribute |
| 6 | **lay** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | the mattresses |  | bundle |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over it=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 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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