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title: The serving lions also came near and the prince would have stayed hi… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The serving lions also came near and the prince would have stayed his hand, but the king-lion signed to him to feed them too. Who acts: serving lions, prince, king lion. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 10

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The serving lions also came near and the prince would have stayed his hand, but the king-lion signed to him to feed them too.

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**Who acts:** serving lions, prince, king lion · **What happens:** come, stay, sign, feed · **To what, where:** hand, prince, hands

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serving lions, prince, king lion), 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:pg3282:4:10
# text = The serving lions also came near and the prince would have stayed his hand, but the king-lion signed to him to feed them too.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	serving	serving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	near	near	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	signed	sign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	too	too	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the serving lions |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | would · perfect | the prince | prince's hand |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hand=Location |
| 3 | **sign** | participle | the king lion |  | prince |  |  |  | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 4 | **feed** | to-infinitive | the king lion *not said here* | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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