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title: At the moment that he knocked at the door of the palace the princess… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the moment that he knocked at the door of the palace the princess had tired of all her employments, and her attendants were at their wits' end how to amuse her, when a tall negro dressed in scarlet came to announce that the ogre was below, and desired to know if the princess would speak to him. W
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 85

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At the moment that he knocked at the door of the palace the princess had tired of all her employments, and her attendants were at their wits' end how to amuse her, when a tall negro dressed in scarlet came to announce that the ogre was below, and desired to know if the princess would speak to him.

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**Who acts:** ogre, princess, attendants, tall negro · **What happens:** knock, have, be, amuse, dress, come · **To what, where:** palace, end, princess, tall negro, scarlet, ogre · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (ogre, princess, attendants, tall negro), 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:pg3027:14:85
# text = At the moment that he knocked at the door of the palace the princess had tired of all her employments, and her attendants were at their wits' end how to amuse her, when a tall negro dressed in scarlet came to announce that the ogre was below, and desired to know if the princess would speak to him.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	employments	employment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	wits	wit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
31	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	amuse	amuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
36	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	negro	negro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
40	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
43	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	announce	announce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
50	below	below	ADV	RB	_	45	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	_
56	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
59	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
60	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	ccomp	_	_
61	to	to	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | past | ogre |  |  |  | moment | at the door of the palace | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past | the princess | the palace *not said here* |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | princess's attendants |  |  |  | at attendants's wits's end |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **amuse** | to-infinitive | ogre *not said here* | princess |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 5 | **dress** | participle |  | a tall negro *not said here* |  | scarlet |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **come** | past | a tall negro |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **announce** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | a tall negro *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | past | the ogre |  |  |  |  | below *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **desire** | participle | ogre *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 10 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | ogre *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 11 | **speak** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | would | the princess |  | ogre |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent |
| 12 | **employ** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom employment «state transitive»: 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 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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