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title: He came from the five fairies, and brought for the Princess a crown,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He came from the five fairies, and brought for the Princess a crown, a sceptre, and a robe of golden brocade, with a petticoat marvellously embroidered with butterflies’ wings. Who acts: dwarf. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, with its dependency tr
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 64

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He came from the five fairies, and brought for the Princess a crown, a sceptre, and a robe of golden brocade, with a petticoat marvellously embroidered with butterflies’ wings.

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**Who acts:** dwarf · **What happens:** come, bring, embroider · **To what, where:** crown, petticoat

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarf), 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:pg540:3:64
# text = He came from the five fairies, and brought for the Princess a crown, a sceptre, and a robe of golden brocade, with a petticoat marvellously embroidered with butterflies’ wings.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	brocade	brocade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	petticoat	petticoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
29	marvellously	marvellously	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | dwarf |  |  |  |  | from the five fairies | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from fairy=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **bring** | past | dwarf *not said here* | a crown |  |  |  | for the Princess | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent crown=Theme |
| 3 | **embroider** | participle |  | a petticoat *not said here* |  |  |  | with butterflies's wings; marvellously *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wing=Theme |

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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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