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title: As soon as the sumptuous meal was over, the Prince and his mermaid t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the sumptuous meal was over, the Prince and his mermaid took leave of the Emperor, and, seating themselves on the golden horse, continued their homeward journey. Who acts: sumptuous meal, Prince, princes. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid, with its de
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 86

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As soon as the sumptuous meal was over, the Prince and his mermaid took leave of the Emperor, and, seating themselves on the golden horse, continued their homeward journey.

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**Who acts:** sumptuous meal, Prince, princes · **What happens:** be, take, seat, continue, journey · **To what, where:** leave, princes, homeward journey

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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 (sumptuous meal, Prince, 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:pg7277:52:86
# text = As soon as the sumptuous meal was over, the Prince and his mermaid took leave of the Emperor, and, seating themselves on the golden horse, continued their homeward journey.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sumptuous	sumptuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	seating	seat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the sumptuous meal |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | the Prince and emperor's mermaid | leave of the Emperor |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
| 3 | **seat** | gerund | the Prince and emperor's mermaid *not said here* | princes *= prince* |  |  |  | on the golden horse | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Value |
| 4 | **continue** | past |  | princes's homeward journey |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme |
| 5 | **journey** |  | princes *= prince* |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act 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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