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title: Of course when the king marvelled and praised Moti’s wisdom, everybo… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course when the king marvelled and praised Moti’s wisdom, everybody else did so too; and, whilst the Afghans went off crestfallen, Moti took the horse and entered the king’s service. Who acts: king, everybody, Afghans, Moti. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Boo
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 84

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Of course when the king marvelled and praised Moti’s wisdom, everybody else did so too; and, whilst the Afghans went off crestfallen, Moti took the horse and entered the king’s service.

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**Who acts:** king, everybody, Afghans, Moti · **What happens:** marvell, praise, do, go off, take, enter · **To what, where:** wisdom, horse, service

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, everybody, Afghans, Moti), 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:pg3454:15:84
# text = Of course when the king marvelled and praised Moti’s wisdom, everybody else did so too; and, whilst the Afghans went off crestfallen, Moti took the horse and entered the king’s service.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	6	advmod	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	marvelled	marvell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	praised	praise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	Moti	Moti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
14	else	else	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Afghans	Afghan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	crestfallen	crestfallen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	Moti	Moti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’s	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marvell** | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **praise** | past | the king *not said here* | Moti's wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | everybody |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go off** | past | the Afghans |  |  |  |  | crestfallen *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | past | Moti |  | the horse |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination |
| 6 | **enter** | past | Moti *not said here* | the king's service |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination |
| 7 | **service** |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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