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title: And fancy their delight when one evening the king returned home from… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And fancy their delight when one evening the king returned home from hunting and saw a baby lying in the cradle. Who acts: you, king, baby. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 9

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And fancy their delight when one evening the king returned home from hunting and saw a baby lying in the cradle.

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**Who acts:** you, king, baby · **What happens:** fancy, return, see, lie, delight · **To what, where:** delight, hunting, baby, cradle

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, king, baby), 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:pg2435:37:9
# text = And fancy their delight when one evening the king returned home from hunting and saw a baby lying in the cradle.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** | imperative | you *not said here* | king's delight |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer delight=Stimulus |
| 2 | **return** | past | the king |  |  | hunting | evening | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from hunting=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **see** | past | the king *not said here* | a baby |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baby=Stimulus |
| 4 | **lie** | gerund | a baby *not said here* |  |  | the cradle |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cradle=Location |
| 5 | **delight** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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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