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title: In an instant the king awoke, and seeing the golden lantern shedding… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In an instant the king awoke, and seeing the golden lantern shedding its light upon him, he sprang up, and embraced Pinkel with joy. Who acts: king, golden lantern, lantern. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 93

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In an instant the king awoke, and seeing the golden lantern shedding its light upon him, he sprang up, and embraced Pinkel with joy.

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**Who acts:** king, golden lantern, lantern · **What happens:** awake, see, shed, spring up, embrace, light · **To what, where:** instant, golden lantern, light, Pinkel

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, golden lantern, lantern), 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:pg3027:16:93
# text = In an instant the king awoke, and seeing the golden lantern shedding its light upon him, he sprang up, and embraced Pinkel with joy.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
9	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	shedding	shed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	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 | **awake** | past | the king |  |  | a instant |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in instant=Location |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | king *not said here* | the golden lantern |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lantern=Stimulus |
| 3 | **shed** | gerund | the golden lantern *not said here* | lantern's light |  |  |  | upon king | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Source |
| 4 | **spring up** | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **embrace** | past | the king *not said here* | Pinkel |  |  |  | with joy | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pinkel=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **light** |  | lantern |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon 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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