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title: So when Thursday evening came, Ritter Red accompanied the Princess t… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So when Thursday evening came, Ritter Red accompanied the Princess to the sea-shore; for there she was to meet the Troll, and Ritter Red was to stay with her and protect her. Who acts: Thursday evening, Ritter, Princess, Ritter Red. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, pa
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 5

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So when Thursday evening came, Ritter Red accompanied the Princess to the sea-shore; for there she was to meet the Troll, and Ritter Red was to stay with her and protect her.

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**Who acts:** Thursday evening, Ritter, Princess, Ritter Red · **What happens:** come, accompany, be, protect · **To what, where:** Princess, sea shore

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (Thursday evening, Ritter, Princess, Ritter Red), 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:pg540:45:5
# text = So when Thursday evening came, Ritter Red accompanied the Princess to the sea-shore; for there she was to meet the Troll, and Ritter Red was to stay with her and protect her.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	obl	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	parataxis	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Thursday evening |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **accompany** | past | Ritter | the Princess |  | the sea shore |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme to shore=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  | meet *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | Ritter Red |  |  |  |  | with Princess; stay *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **protect** | infinitive | Ritter Red *not said here* |  | Princess |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |

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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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