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title: So she went to the palace, where she found the king sitting in the H… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So she went to the palace, where she found the king sitting in the Hall of Justice listening to the petitions of his people. Who acts: mother, king. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 21

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So she went to the palace, where she found the king sitting in the Hall of Justice listening to the petitions of his people.

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**Who acts:** mother, king · **What happens:** go, find, sit, listen, petition · **To what, where:** palace, king, Hall, people

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, 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:pg3027:14:21
# text = So she went to the palace, where she found the king sitting in the Hall of Justice listening to the petitions of his people.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Justice	Justice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	petitions	petition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | mother |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | mother | the king |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent king=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund | the king *not said here* |  |  | the Hall of Justice |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location |
| 4 | **listen** | gerund | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the petitions of Justice's people | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to petition=Theme |
| 5 | **petition** |  |  | Justice's people |  |  |  |  | nom petition «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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