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title: The first was the Princess Marya, the second the Princess Olga, the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The first was the Princess Marya, the second the Princess Olga, the third the Princess Anna. Who acts: first. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 3

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The first was the Princess Marya, the second the Princess Olga, the third the Princess Anna.

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**Who acts:** first · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Princess Marya

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first), 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:pg540:7:3
# text = The first was the Princess Marya, the second the Princess Olga, the third the Princess Anna.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Marya	Marya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	nsubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Olga	Olga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	nsubj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Anna	Anna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the first | the Princess Marya and the Princess Olga and the Princess Anna |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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