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title: Then they continued their journey, taking with them the Porcelain Ma… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they continued their journey, taking with them the Porcelain Maiden, in the firm belief that their brother was drowned. Who acts: servants, firm belief. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 70

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Then they continued their journey, taking with them the Porcelain Maiden, in the firm belief that their brother was drowned.

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**Who acts:** servants, firm belief · **What happens:** continue, take, drown, journey · **To what, where:** journey, Porcelain Maiden, firm belief, brother

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, firm belief), 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:pg7277:21:70
# text = Then they continued their journey, taking with them the Porcelain Maiden, in the firm belief that their brother was drowned.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Porcelain	Porcelain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | servants *= servant* | servants's journey |  |  | then |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | servants *= servant* *not said here* | the Porcelain Maiden |  | the firm belief |  | with servants *= servant* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent maiden=Value in belief=Location |
| 3 | **drown** | past · passive | the firm belief *not said here* | servants's brother |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **journey** |  | servants *= servant* |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: 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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