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title: When the three rode into the courtyard of the palace, they were surp… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the three rode into the courtyard of the palace, they were surprised and delighted to find everything festively illuminated and decorated for their reception. Who acts: three, princes. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 82

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When the three rode into the courtyard of the palace, they were surprised and delighted to find everything festively illuminated and decorated for their reception.

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**Who acts:** three, princes · **What happens:** ride, be, find, illuminate, decorate, receive · **To what, where:** courtyard, everything

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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 (three, 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:pg7277:52:82
# text = When the three rode into the courtyard of the palace, they were surprised and delighted to find everything festively illuminated and decorated for their reception.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
19	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	obj	_	_
20	festively	festively	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	appos	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	reception	reception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | the three |  |  | the courtyard of the palace |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into courtyard=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | past | princes *= prince* |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | princes *= prince* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | princes *= prince* *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic |
| 5 | **illuminate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | festively *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **decorate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for princes's reception | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **receive** |  | princes *= prince* |  |  |  |  |  | nom reception «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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