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title: They were still quite confused with the pleasure of seeing each othe… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They were still quite confused with the pleasure of seeing each other, when the chariot arrived at King Peridor’s palace. Who acts: fairies, pleasure, chariot. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 50

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They were still quite confused with the pleasure of seeing each other, when the chariot arrived at King Peridor’s palace.

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**Who acts:** fairies, pleasure, chariot · **What happens:** be, see, arrive · **To what, where:** each, palace

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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 (fairies, pleasure, chariot), 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:pg640:12:50
# text = They were still quite confused with the pleasure of seeing each other, when the chariot arrived at King Peridor’s palace.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	confused	confused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	10	obj	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	Peridor	Peridor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
22	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | fairies *= fairy* |  |  |  | still | with the pleasure; confused *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | the pleasure *not said here* | each |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
| 3 | **arrive** | past | the chariot |  |  | King's palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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