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title: The kings of Ireland and of Munster and Ulster, and their wives, soo… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The kings of Ireland and of Munster and Ulster, and their wives, soon came to visit them, and may every one that deserves it be as happy as the Brown Bear of Norway and his family. Who acts: kings, one. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, with its depe
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 31

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The kings of Ireland and of Munster and Ulster, and their wives, soon came to visit them, and may every one that deserves it be as happy as the Brown Bear of Norway and his family.

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**Who acts:** kings, one · **What happens:** come, visit, deserve, be · **To what, where:** kings, building

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kings, one), 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:pg3454:14:31
# text = The kings of Ireland and of Munster and Ulster, and their wives, soon came to visit them, and may every one that deserves it be as happy as the Brown Bear of Norway and his family.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Munster	Munster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	deserves	deserve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the kings of Ireland and Munster and Ulster and kings's wives |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **visit** | to-infinitive | the kings of Ireland and Munster and Ulster and kings's wives *not said here* | kings *= king* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **deserve** | present | every one | building |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | every one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the Brown Bear of Norway and Norway's family; happy *property* | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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