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title: Then there were feasts and fireworks in every street in the town, an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then there were feasts and fireworks in every street in the town, and early the next morning the Fairy, who had been all over the world in the night, brought back with her, in her flying chariot, the most handsome and good-tempered Prince she could find anywhere. Who acts: feasts, Fairy. A sentence 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 193

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Then there were feasts and fireworks in every street in the town, and early the next morning the Fairy, who had been all over the world in the night, brought back with her, in her flying chariot, the most handsome and good-tempered Prince she could find anywhere.

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**Who acts:** feasts, Fairy · **What happens:** be, bring back, fly, temper, find · **To what, where:** street, world, flying chariot, Prince

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feasts, Fairy), 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:pg540:22:193
# text = Then there were feasts and fireworks in every street in the town, and early the next morning the Fairy, who had been all over the world in the night, brought back with her, in her flying chariot, the most handsome and good-tempered Prince she could find anywhere.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	feasts	feast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
15	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	cop	_	_
25	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
33	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	back	back	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	amod	_	_
41	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	45	advmod	_	_
45	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	tempered	temper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	conj	_	_
50	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	parataxis	_	_
54	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | feasts and fireworks |  |  | every street in the town; there | then |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | the Fairy |  |  | the world | night | all *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring back** | past | the Fairy |  |  | fairy's flying chariot | morning | with feast | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **temper** | participle | the Fairy *not said here* | Prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **find** | could | fairy |  |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: 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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