--- title: Now it happened that it was in this very country that Prince Peerles… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now it happened that it was in this very country that Prince Peerless had been set down, and while the Princess Sunbeam was still sleeping peacefully, he came strolling along in search of a shady pasture for his sheep. Who acts: it, flock, Princess Sunbeam, Sunbeam. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/35/73/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Golden Branch, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/35/) / 73 # The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 73 Now it happened that it was in this very country that Prince Peerless had been set down, and while the Princess Sunbeam was still sleeping peacefully, he came strolling along in search of a shady pasture for his sheep. **Who acts:** it, flock, Princess Sunbeam, Sunbeam · **What happens:** happen, be, set down, sleep, come, stroll · **To what, where:** country, Prince, search, shady pasture This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, flock, Princess Sunbeam, Sunbeam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg540:35:73 # text = Now it happened that it was in this very country that Prince Peerless had been set down, and while the Princess Sunbeam was still sleeping peacefully, he came strolling along in search of a shady pasture for his sheep. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 det _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 obj _ _ 12 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 Peerless Peerless PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl:relcl _ _ 17 down down ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 20 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Sunbeam Sunbeam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 still still ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 27 peacefully peacefully ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 31 strolling stroll VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 32 along along ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 shady shady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 pasture pasture NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | it | | | | now | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | flock | | | this country | | | tree rules | | 3 | **set down** | past · perfect · passive | | Prince | | | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme that=Destination | | 4 | **sleep** | past · progressive | the Princess Sunbeam | | | | still | peacefully *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **come** | past | Sunbeam | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **stroll** | gerund | Sunbeam *not said here* | | | search of a shady pasture for Sunbeam's sheep | | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Trajectory | | 7 | **search** | | | a shady pasture for Sunbeam's sheep | | | | | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/35/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/35/74/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Branch, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/35/)