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title: By-and-by, who should come along but the old king, lamenting and wee… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: By-and-by, who should come along but the old king, lamenting and weeping, expecting to see nothing of his daughter but the prints of the place where she had been. Who acts: daughter. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, with its dependency tre
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 108

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By-and-by, who should come along but the old king, lamenting and weeping, expecting to see nothing of his daughter but the prints of the place where she had been.

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** come along, lament, weep, expect, see, be · **To what, where:** nothing, place

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg14241:1510`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:30:108
# text = By-and-by, who should come along but the old king, lamenting and weeping, expecting to see nothing of his daughter but the prints of the place where she had been.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	9	advmod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	1	fixed	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	along	along	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	but	but	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	lamenting	lament	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	but	but	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	prints	print	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	36	advmod	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come along** | should |  |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lament** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **weep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **expect** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | nothing |  |  |  | but the prints of the place | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 6 | **be** | past · perfect | daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **print** |  |  | the place |  |  |  |  | nom print «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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