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title: At one of the villages a dainty little repast was set before the Pri… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At one of the villages a dainty little repast was set before the Prince, and while he was eating, a chariot was brought, drawn by two splendid horses, which were driven with great skill by a large spaniel. Who acts: Prince, large spaniel. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 7

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At one of the villages a dainty little repast was set before the Prince, and while he was eating, a chariot was brought, drawn by two splendid horses, which were driven with great skill by a large spaniel.

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**Who acts:** Prince, large spaniel · **What happens:** set, eat, bring, draw, drive · **To what, where:** dainty little repast, chariot, two splendid horses

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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, large spaniel), 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:pg7277:15:7
# text = At one of the villages a dainty little repast was set before the Prince, and while he was eating, a chariot was brought, drawn by two splendid horses, which were driven with great skill by a large spaniel.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	dainty	dainty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	repast	repast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
30	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	spaniel	spaniel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past · passive |  | a dainty little repast |  |  | before the Prince | at one; of the villages | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at one=Destination |
| 2 | **eat** | past · progressive | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** | past · passive |  | a chariot |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **draw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by two splendid horses | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **drive** | past · passive | a large spaniel | two splendid horses |  |  |  | with great skill | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory |

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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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