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title: One day three Princes, whom their father had sent abroad to travel,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day three Princes, whom their father had sent abroad to travel, came to the town where Parsley lived and perceived the beautiful girl combing and plaiting her long black hair at the window. Who acts: father, One day, Parsley. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, pa
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 60

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One day three Princes, whom their father had sent abroad to travel, came to the town where Parsley lived and perceived the beautiful girl combing and plaiting her long black hair at the window.

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**Who acts:** father, One day, Parsley · **What happens:** send, travel, come, live, perceive, plait · **To what, where:** three Princes, town, beautiful girl combing, long black hair, window

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, One day, Parsley), 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:pg7277:29:60
# text = One day three Princes, whom their father had sent abroad to travel, came to the town where Parsley lived and perceived the beautiful girl combing and plaiting her long black hair at the window.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	Princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
11	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	Parsley	Parsley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	combing	combing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	plaiting	plait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
31	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · perfect | remorse's father | three Princes |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **travel** | to-infinitive | remorse's father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | One day and three Princes |  |  | the town |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **live** | past | Parsley |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **perceive** | past | Parsley *not said here* | the beautiful girl combing |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer combing=Stimulus |
| 6 | **plait** | gerund | Parsley *not said here* | Parsley's long black hair |  | the window |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |

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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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