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title: When they reached the country ruled over by the Emperor with the gol… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they reached the country ruled over by the Emperor with the golden horse, the Prince jumped down, and, helping the mermaid to alight, he led her before the Emperor. Who acts: princes, Prince, emperor. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid, with its dependency t
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 73

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When they reached the country ruled over by the Emperor with the golden horse, the Prince jumped down, and, helping the mermaid to alight, he led her before the Emperor.

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**Who acts:** princes, Prince, emperor · **What happens:** reach, rule over, jump down, help, lead · **To what, where:** country, mermaid

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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 (princes, Prince, emperor), 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:pg7277:52:73
# text = When they reached the country ruled over by the Emperor with the golden horse, the Prince jumped down, and, helping the mermaid to alight, he led her before the Emperor.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	helping	help	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	alight	alight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	before	before	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | princes *= prince* | the country |  |  |  | with the golden horse | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent country=Theme |
| 2 | **rule over** | participle |  | the country *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Emperor; over *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **jump down** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | gerund | the Prince *not said here* |  | the mermaid |  |  | to alight | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mermaid=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **lead** | past | emperor | mermaid |  |  | before the Emperor |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme before emperor=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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