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title: The eldest Princess opened it, and they found themselves immediately… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The eldest Princess opened it, and they found themselves immediately in a lovely little wood, where the leaves were spangled with drops of silver which shone in the brilliant light of the moon. Who acts: eldest Princess, princesses, silver. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twel
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 68

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The eldest Princess opened it, and they found themselves immediately in a lovely little wood, where the leaves were spangled with drops of silver which shone in the brilliant light of the moon.

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**Who acts:** eldest Princess, princesses, silver · **What happens:** open, find, spangle, shine, light · **To what, where:** end, princesses, lovely little wood, leaves, brilliant light, moon

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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 (eldest Princess, princesses, silver), 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:pg540:2:68
# text = The eldest Princess opened it, and they found themselves immediately in a lovely little wood, where the leaves were spangled with drops of silver which shone in the brilliant light of the moon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	spangled	spangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | the eldest Princess | end |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | princesses *= princess* | princesses *= princess* |  | a lovely little wood |  | immediately *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic |
| 3 | **spangle** | past · passive |  | the leaves |  |  |  | with drops of silver | tree rules |
| 4 | **shine** | past | silver |  |  | the brilliant light of the moon |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location |
| 5 | **light** |  |  | the moon |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon 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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