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title: And the king of Erin looked at the maiden, and was well pleased, not… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the king of Erin looked at the maiden, and was well pleased, not knowing that it was Gille Mairtean the fox. Who acts: king, maiden. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 19

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And the king of Erin looked at the maiden, and was well pleased, not knowing that it was Gille Mairtean the fox.

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**Who acts:** king, maiden · **What happens:** look, be, not know · **To what, where:** fox, Gille Mairtean

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, maiden), 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:pg3027:8:19
# text = And the king of Erin looked at the maiden, and was well pleased, not knowing that it was Gille Mairtean the fox.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	looked	look	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	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	Gille	Gille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Mairtean	Mairtean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the king of Erin |  |  |  |  | at the maiden | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at maiden=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the king of Erin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pleased, well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **know** | gerund | the king of Erin *not said here* | the fox |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fox=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | past | maiden | Gille Mairtean |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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