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title: It was about seven o’clock in the morning when this extraordinary ch… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 113

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It was about seven o’clock in the morning when this extraordinary chariot reached the palace gates; the King was already astir, and about to set off on a hunting expedition; as for the Queen, she had only just gone off into her first sleep, and it would have been a bold person indeed who ventured to wake her.

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**Who acts:** knee, extraordinary chariot, King, Queen, bold person · **What happens:** be, reach, set off, go off, venture, wake · **To what, where:** seven o’clock, palace gates, hunting expedition, first sleep, bold person, Queen

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knee, extraordinary chariot, King, Queen), 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:pg7277:11:113
# text = It was about seven o’clock in the morning when this extraordinary chariot reached the palace gates; the King was already astir, and about to set off on a hunting expedition; as for the Queen, she had only just gone off into her first sleep, and it would have been a bold person indeed who ventured to wake her.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	already	already	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	astir	astir	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
28	off	off	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
41	only	only	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	just	just	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
44	off	off	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	into	into	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
47	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	48	amod	_	_
48	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
52	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
53	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	aux	_	_
54	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	57	cop	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
58	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
59	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	60	nsubj	_	_
60	ventured	venture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	acl:relcl	_	_
61	to	to	PART	TO	_	62	mark	_	_
62	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	xcomp	_	_
63	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | knee | seven o’clock |  |  | morning | about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach** | past | this extraordinary chariot | the palace gates |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the King |  |  |  |  | astir *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **set off** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* |  |  | a hunting expedition |  | as the Queen; about *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go off** | past · perfect | Queen |  |  | Queen's first sleep |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | would · perfect | knee | a bold person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **venture** | past | a bold person |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **wake** | to-infinitive | a bold person *not said here* | Queen |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 9 | **sleep** |  | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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