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title: Then two servants led Prince Milan to a beautiful apartment, and he… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then two servants led Prince Milan to a beautiful apartment, and he lay down fearlessly on the soft bed that had been prepared for him, and was soon fast asleep. Who acts: two servants, Milan. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 82

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Then two servants led Prince Milan to a beautiful apartment, and he lay down fearlessly on the soft bed that had been prepared for him, and was soon fast asleep.

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**Who acts:** two servants, Milan · **What happens:** lead, lie down, prepare, be · **To what, where:** Prince Milan, beautiful apartment, soft bed

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (two servants, Milan), 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:pg7277:27:82
# text = Then two servants led Prince Milan to a beautiful apartment, and he lay down fearlessly on the soft bed that had been prepared for him, and was soon fast asleep.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Milan	Milan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	fearlessly	fearlessly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
31	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
32	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	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 | **lead** | past | two servants | Prince Milan |  | a beautiful apartment | then |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent milan=Theme to apartment=Destination |
| 2 | **lie down** | past | Milan |  |  | the soft bed |  | down, fearlessly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location |
| 3 | **prepare** | past · perfect · passive |  | the soft bed |  |  |  | for Milan | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for he=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **is** | past | Milan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast, soon *property* | tree rules |

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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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