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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 83

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And that day the slaves in their black robes, and each having a large bat perched upon his head, marched in slow procession with the Prince in their midst, chanting a melancholy song, to the iron gate that led into a kind of Temple.

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**Who acts:** each, iron gate · **What happens:** bat, perch, march, chant, lead · **To what, where:** large bat, head, slow procession, melancholy song, iron gate, kind

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (each, iron gate), 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:pg7277:36:83
# text = And that day the slaves in their black robes, and each having a large bat perched upon his head, marched in slow procession with the Prince in their midst, chanting a melancholy song, to the iron gate that led into a kind of Temple.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	_
13	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	aux	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
17	perched	perch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	marched	march	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	chanting	chant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
43	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Temple	Temple	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bat** | gerund | each |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **perch** | participle |  | a large bat *not said here* |  | water's head |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon head=Location |
| 3 | **march** | participle |  |  |  | slow procession with the Prince |  | in bats's midst | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in procession=Trajectory |
| 4 | **chant** | gerund |  | a melancholy song | the iron gate |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic to gate=Recipient |
| 5 | **lead** | past | the iron gate |  |  | a kind of Temple |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into kind=Destination |

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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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