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title: This chariot was drawn by flying frogs, and the King easily persuade… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This chariot was drawn by flying frogs, and the King easily persuaded Turritella to come out and let him put her into it, then mounting beside her he cried triumphantly-- Who acts: flying frogs, King, Turritella. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1, with its de
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 84

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This chariot was drawn by flying frogs, and the King easily persuaded Turritella to come out and let him put her into it, then mounting beside her he cried triumphantly--

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**Who acts:** flying frogs, King, Turritella · **What happens:** draw, fly, persuade, come out, let, put · **To what, where:** chariot, Turritella, King

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flying frogs, King, Turritella), 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:pg7277:2:84
# text = This chariot was drawn by flying frogs, and the King easily persuaded Turritella to come out and let him put her into it, then mounting beside her he cried triumphantly--
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	mounting	mount	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
28	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
32	triumphantly	triumphantly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past · passive | flying frogs | this chariot |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **persuade** | past | the King | Turritella |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent turritella=Patient clause=Result |
| 4 | **come out** | to-infinitive | Turritella *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive | Turritella *not said here* | King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **put** | infinitive | King *not said here* |  | Turritella | chariot |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal |
| 7 | **mount** | gerund | the King *not said here* |  |  |  | then | beside Turritella | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside she=Destination |
| 8 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | King |  |  |  |  | triumphantly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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