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title: Admiral Cocked-Hat was immensely surprised when he came upon the gol… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Admiral Cocked-Hat was immensely surprised when he came upon the golden chariot, and still more so to see two lovely ladies walking under the trees a little farther away. Who acts: Admiral, Hat, two lovely ladies. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, wi
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 21

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Admiral Cocked-Hat was immensely surprised when he came upon the golden chariot, and still more so to see two lovely ladies walking under the trees a little farther away.

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**Who acts:** Admiral, Hat, two lovely ladies · **What happens:** cock, be, come, see, walk · **To what, where:** Hat, golden chariot, two lovely ladies, trees

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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 (Admiral, Hat, two lovely ladies), 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:pg540:5:21
# text = Admiral Cocked-Hat was immensely surprised when he came upon the golden chariot, and still more so to see two lovely ladies walking under the trees a little farther away.
1	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Cocked	cock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Hat	Hat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	immensely	immensely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	under	under	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
31	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cock** | participle | Admiral *not said here* | Hat |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | Admiral |  |  |  |  | immensely, surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | Hat |  |  | the golden chariot |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon chariot=Location |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | two lovely ladies |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus |
| 5 | **walk** | gerund | two lovely ladies *not said here* |  |  | the trees |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Trajectory |

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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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