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title: And when next the king came to see his horses they began to speak of… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when next the king came to see his horses they began to speak of Pinkel and his marvellous cunning, and how he had contrived to steal the lantern and the goat, which nobody else would have been able to do. Who acts: horses, king, lantern. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Ope
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 33

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And when next the king came to see his horses they began to speak of Pinkel and his marvellous cunning, and how he had contrived to steal the lantern and the goat, which nobody else would have been able to do.

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**Who acts:** horses, king, lantern · **What happens:** come, see, begin, speak, contrive, steal · **To what, where:** horses, lantern · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses, king, 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:pg3027:17:33
# text = And when next the king came to see his horses they began to speak of Pinkel and his marvellous cunning, and how he had contrived to steal the lantern and the goat, which nobody else would have been able to do.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
3	next	next	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	contrived	contrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
36	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	41	nsubj	_	_
37	else	else	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
39	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux	_	_
40	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	cop	_	_
41	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | horses *= horse* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | next the king | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme next king=Location |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | horses *= horse* *not said here* | king's horses |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus |
| 3 | **begin** | past | horses *= horse* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | horses *= horse* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Pinkel and king's marvellous cunning | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **contrive** | past · perfect | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **steal** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | the lantern and the goat |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lantern=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | would · perfect | the lantern and the goat |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **do** | to-infinitive | the lantern and the goat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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