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title: The chariots met with a frightful crash in mid-air, and the Princess… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The chariots met with a frightful crash in mid-air, and the Princess looked on in breathless anxiety while a furious battle took place between the lovely Fairy with her golden lance, and the hideous little Dwarf and her rusty pike. Who acts: chariots, Princess, furious battle. A sentence of «The Red
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 15

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The chariots met with a frightful crash in mid-air, and the Princess looked on in breathless anxiety while a furious battle took place between the lovely Fairy with her golden lance, and the hideous little Dwarf and her rusty pike.

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**Who acts:** chariots, Princess, furious battle · **What happens:** meet, look on, take · **To what, where:** hideous little Dwarf, place

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chariots, Princess, furious battle), 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:pg540:5:15
# text = The chariots met with a frightful crash in mid-air, and the Princess looked on in breathless anxiety while a furious battle took place between the lovely Fairy with her golden lance, and the hideous little Dwarf and her rusty pike.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chariots	chariot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mid-air	mid-air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	breathless	breathless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	between	between	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	rusty	rusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | the chariots | the hideous little Dwarf and Dwarf's rusty pike |  |  |  | with a frightful crash in mid-air | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with crash=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **look on** | past | the Princess |  |  |  |  | in breathless anxiety | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in anxiety=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | a furious battle | place |  |  |  | between the lovely Fairy with battle's golden lance | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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