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title: Then the kings and princes began to arrive one after another, and al… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the kings and princes began to arrive one after another, and all were most anxious to see the hairy man; but he was gone! Who acts: kings, all, king. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 19

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Then the kings and princes began to arrive one after another, and all were most anxious to see the hairy man; but he was gone!

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**Who acts:** kings, all, king · **What happens:** begin, arrive, be, see · **To what, where:** one, hairy man

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kings, all, 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:pg2435:3:19
# text = Then the kings and princes began to arrive one after another, and all were most anxious to see the hairy man; but he was gone!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	arrive	arrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	hairy	hairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the kings and princes |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **arrive** | to-infinitive | the kings and princes *not said here* | one |  |  | after another |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | anxious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | all *not said here* | the hairy man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | past | king |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |

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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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