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title: They slipped unnoticed into the Emperor’s stables and into the very… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They slipped unnoticed into the Emperor’s stables and into the very place where there were the most guards, for there the wolf rightly surmised they would find the horse. Who acts: most guards, princes. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid, with its dependency tree
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 44

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They slipped unnoticed into the Emperor’s stables and into the very place where there were the most guards, for there the wolf rightly surmised they would find the horse.

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**Who acts:** most guards, princes · **What happens:** unnotic, be, surmise, find · **To what, where:** princes, stables, wolf, horse

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most guards, princes), 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:pg7277:52:44
# text = They slipped unnoticed into the Emperor’s stables and into the very place where there were the most guards, for there the wolf rightly surmised they would find the horse.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	unnoticed	unnotic	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	rightly	rightly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	surmised	surmise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unnotic** | past · passive |  | princes *= prince* |  | the Emperor's stables and the place |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | the most guards |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **surmise** | participle · passive |  | the wolf |  | there |  | rightly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **find** | would | princes *= prince* | the horse |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic |

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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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