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title: Then a troop of servants, male and female, flocked into the apartmen… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then a troop of servants, male and female, flocked into the apartment where the happy couple sat, and after wishing the Princess and her bridegroom joy, they dispersed all over the castle to their different occupations. Who acts: happy couple, apartments, Princess. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Boo
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 68

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Then a troop of servants, male and female, flocked into the apartment where the happy couple sat, and after wishing the Princess and her bridegroom joy, they dispersed all over the castle to their different occupations.

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**Who acts:** happy couple, apartments, Princess · **What happens:** flock, sit, wish, disperse, joy, occupy · **To what, where:** apartment, Princess, castle

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (happy couple, apartments, Princess), 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:pg7277:55:68
# text = Then a troop of servants, male and female, flocked into the apartment where the happy couple sat, and after wishing the Princess and her bridegroom joy, they dispersed all over the castle to their different occupations.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	flocked	flock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
22	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	dispersed	disperse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
33	all	all	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	over	over	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	occupations	occupation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flock** | participle |  |  |  | the apartment |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past | the happy couple |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wish** | gerund | apartments *= apartment* *not said here* | the Princess and Princess's bridegroom joy |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot princess=Theme |
| 4 | **disperse** | past | apartments *= apartment* | the castle |  |  |  | to apartments's different occupations | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent castle=Patient |
| 5 | **joy** |  | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **occupy** |  | apartments *= apartment* |  |  |  |  |  | nom occupation «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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