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title: As they rose through the air the Princess remarked a figure mounted… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As they rose through the air the Princess remarked a figure mounted on an eagle’s back flying in front of the chariot. Who acts: Prince, Princess. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 52

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As they rose through the air the Princess remarked a figure mounted on an eagle’s back flying in front of the chariot.

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**Who acts:** Prince, Princess · **What happens:** rise, remark, mount, fly · **To what, where:** air, figure, front

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Princess), 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:pg640:20:52
# text = As they rose through the air the Princess remarked a figure mounted on an eagle’s back flying in front of the chariot.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	remarked	remark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | Prince |  |  | the air |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through air=Location |
| 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* | past | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mount** | participle |  | a figure *not said here* |  |  |  | on a eagle | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on eagle=Destination |
| 4 | **fly** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* |  |  | front of the chariot |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location |

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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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