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title: There was great rejoicing in the court and all through the country o… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There was great rejoicing in the court and all through the country over the solving of the riddle, and because now no more kings and princes would be killed. 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 42

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There was great rejoicing in the court and all through the country over the solving of the riddle, and because now no more kings and princes would be killed.

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**What happens:** be, rejoice, kill, solve · **To what, where:** court, more kings, riddle

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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: 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:pg3282:6:42
# text = There was great rejoicing in the court and all through the country over the solving of the riddle, and because now no more kings and princes would be killed.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	solving	solving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
21	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
22	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	obl	_	_
23	no	no	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past |  |  |  | there |  | great *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rejoice** | gerund |  |  |  | the court and the country |  | over the solving of the riddle | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **kill** | would · passive |  | more kings and princes |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **solve** |  |  | the riddle |  |  |  |  | nom solving «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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