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title: When the Lady Jamila heard that Prince Almas was near, she went out,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Lady Jamila heard that Prince Almas was near, she went out, with many a fair handmaid, to give him loving reception. Who acts: Lady Jamila, Almas. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 1

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When the Lady Jamila heard that Prince Almas was near, she went out, with many a fair handmaid, to give him loving reception.

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**Who acts:** Lady Jamila, Almas · **What happens:** hear, be, go out, give · **To what, where:** loving reception, Jamila · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady Jamila, Almas), 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:pg3282:6:1
# text = When the Lady Jamila heard that Prince Almas was near, she went out, with many a fair handmaid, to give him loving reception.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Jamila	Jamila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Almas	Almas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	near	near	ADV	RB	_	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nsubj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	handmaid	handmaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	reception	reception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the Lady Jamila |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | Almas  Prince |  |  |  |  | near *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go out** | past | Almas |  |  |  |  | with a fair handmaid | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with handmaid=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | loving reception | Jamila |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient reception=Theme |

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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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