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title: Then the curtain fell before it once more, and the Prince, after man… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the curtain fell before it once more, and the Prince, after many ceremonies, was presented with a raven which perched upon his wrist, and was conducted slowly back to the iron gate. Who acts: curtain, raven. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Pla
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 8

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Then the curtain fell before it once more, and the Prince, after many ceremonies, was presented with a raven which perched upon his wrist, and was conducted slowly back to the iron gate.

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**Who acts:** curtain, raven · **What happens:** fall, present, perch, conduct · **To what, where:** nature, Prince, wrist

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (curtain, raven), 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:pg7277:37:8
# text = Then the curtain fell before it once more, and the Prince, after many ceremonies, was presented with a raven which perched upon his wrist, and was conducted slowly back to the iron gate.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	perched	perch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
32	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	back	back	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the curtain |  |  | nature | then |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before it=Location |
| 2 | **present** | past · passive |  | the Prince |  |  |  | with a raven | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with raven=Theme |
| 3 | **perch** | past | a raven |  |  | Prince's wrist |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon wrist=Location |
| 4 | **conduct** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP» |

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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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