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title: After this they met every day as they guarded their flocks, and were… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After this they met every day as they guarded their flocks, and were so happy that Prince Peerless begged the Princess to marry him, so that they might never be parted again. Who acts: flowers, Peerless. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2, with its dependenc
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 80

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After this they met every day as they guarded their flocks, and were so happy that Prince Peerless begged the Princess to marry him, so that they might never be parted again.

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**Who acts:** flowers, Peerless · **What happens:** meet, guard, be, beg, marry, not part · **To what, where:** flocks, Princess, Peerless, flowers

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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 (flowers, Peerless), 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:pg540:35:80
# text = After this they met every day as they guarded their flocks, and were so happy that Prince Peerless begged the Princess to marry him, so that they might never be parted again.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	guarded	guard	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	Peerless	Peerless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	33	mark	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	parted	part	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
34	again	again	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  | after this; day |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **guard** | past | flowers *= flower* | flowers's flocks |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Peerless  Prince |  | the Princess |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient |
| 5 | **marry** | to-infinitive | Peerless  Prince *not said here* | Peerless |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **part** | might · passive |  | flowers *= flower* |  |  | again |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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