--- title: And as he waited with his beasts round him a great procession came a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And as he waited with his beasts round him a great procession came along, accompanying the unfortunate princess: and when the shore was reached all the people left her, and returned sadly to their houses. Who acts: dragon, great procession, people. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/66/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Three Princes and Their Beasts (li…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/) / 66 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 66 And as he waited with his beasts round him a great procession came along, accompanying the unfortunate princess: and when the shore was reached all the people left her, and returned sadly to their houses. **Who acts:** dragon, great procession, people · **What happens:** wait, come along, accompany, reach, leave, return · **To what, where:** unfortunate princess, shore, princess This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, great procession, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:5:66 # text = And as he waited with his beasts round him a great procession came along, accompanying the unfortunate princess: and when the shore was reached all the people left her, and returned sadly to their houses. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 round round ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 procession procession NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 along along ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 accompanying accompany VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 unfortunate unfortunate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 when when SCONJ WRB _ 26 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 reached reach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 27 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 29 det:predet _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 31 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 35 sadly sadly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | past | dragon | | | | | with dragon's beasts; round king | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come along** | past | a great procession | | | | | along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **accompany** | gerund | a great procession *not said here* | the unfortunate princess | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | | 4 | **reach** | past · passive | | the shore | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **leave** | past | all people | princess | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 6 | **return** | past | dragon *not said here* | | | | | to people's houses *result*; sadly *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | 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. **Text:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/67/) - ↑ back to [The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/)