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title: The king and queen met them on the steps of the palace, and conducte… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king and queen met them on the steps of the palace, and conducted the girl to the women’s house, where she would have to remain until her marriage. Who acts: king, girl. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 67

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The king and queen met them on the steps of the palace, and conducted the girl to the women’s house, where she would have to remain until her marriage.

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**Who acts:** king, girl · **What happens:** meet, conduct, have, remain, step, marry · **To what, where:** sailors, girl, house, palace

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, girl), 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:pg2435:23:67
# text = The king and queen met them on the steps of the palace, and conducted the girl to the women’s house, where she would have to remain until her marriage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	until	until	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | the king and queen | sailors *= sailor* |  |  |  | on the steps of the palace | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **conduct** | past | the king and queen *not said here* | the girl |  | the women's house |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme to house=Destination |
| 3 | **have** | would | girl |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **remain** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  |  | until girl's marriage |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **step** |  |  | the palace |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **marry** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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