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title: This matter being comfortably arranged, she started off her chariot. — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This matter being comfortably arranged, she started off her chariot. Who acts: Serpentine. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 48

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This matter being comfortably arranged, she started off her chariot.

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**Who acts:** Serpentine · **What happens:** arrange, start off · **To what, where:** matter, chariot

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (Serpentine), 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:pg640:12:48
# text = This matter being comfortably arranged, she started off her chariot.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrange** | gerund · passive |  | this matter |  |  |  | comfortably *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **start off** | past | Serpentine | Serpentine's chariot |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Eventuality |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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