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title: At last they entered the palace gates, and the king's heart bounded… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last they entered the palace gates, and the king's heart bounded with joy at beholding his beloved Princess Bella-Flor. Who acts: meshes, heart. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 43

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At last they entered the palace gates, and the king's heart bounded with joy at beholding his beloved Princess Bella-Flor.

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**Who acts:** meshes, heart · **What happens:** enter, bound, behold · **To what, where:** palace gates, last, beloved Princess

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meshes, heart), 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:pg3027:32:43
# text = At last they entered the palace gates, and the king's heart bounded with joy at beholding his beloved Princess Bella-Flor.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	bounded	bound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	beholding	behold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	Bella	Bella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Flor	Flor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | meshes *= mesh* | the palace gates |  | last |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Destination |
| 2 | **bound** | participle | the king's heart |  |  |  |  | with joy | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **behold** | gerund | the king's heart *not said here* | heart's beloved Princess |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |

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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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