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title: By this time they had reached the palace, and the king came to the d… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By this time they had reached the palace, and the king came to the door to receive Count Piro, and led him to the great hall, where a feast was spread. Who acts: Majesty, king. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 88

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By this time they had reached the palace, and the king came to the door to receive Count Piro, and led him to the great hall, where a feast was spread.

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**Who acts:** Majesty, king · **What happens:** reach, come, receive, count, lead, spread · **To what, where:** palace, door, Piro, king, great hall, feast

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majesty, king), 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:pg2435:25:88
# text = By this time they had reached the palace, and the king came to the door to receive Count Piro, and led him to the great hall, where a feast was spread.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	Count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
20	Piro	Piro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past · perfect | Majesty | the palace |  |  | time |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the king |  |  | the door |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **receive** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **count** | infinitive | the king *not said here* | Piro |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piro=Theme |
| 5 | **lead** | past | the king *not said here* | king |  | the great hall |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to hall=Destination |
| 6 | **spread** | past · passive |  | a feast |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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