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title: The shepherd came and stood before the throne, where the king sat lo… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The shepherd came and stood before the throne, where the king sat looking very grand and powerful. Who acts: shepherd, 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 clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 72

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The shepherd came and stood before the throne, where the king sat looking very grand and powerful.

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**Who acts:** shepherd, king · **What happens:** come, stand, sit, look · **To what, where:** throne, grand

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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 (shepherd, 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:pg2435:3:72
# text = The shepherd came and stood before the throne, where the king sat looking very grand and powerful.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the shepherd |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the shepherd *not said here* |  |  | the throne |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before throne=Location |
| 3 | **sit** | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | the king *not said here* | grand |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme grand=Attribute |

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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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