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title: Then the king led the way to the courtyard just behind the palace, a… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the king led the way to the courtyard just behind the palace, and through the gate into a beautiful garden where stood two splendid tombs in a green space under the trees. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tre
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 121

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Then the king led the way to the courtyard just behind the palace, and through the gate into a beautiful garden where stood two splendid tombs in a green space under the trees.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** lead, stand · **To what, where:** way, gate, two splendid tombs, green space

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg3454:21:121
# text = Then the king led the way to the courtyard just behind the palace, and through the gate into a beautiful garden where stood two splendid tombs in a green space under the trees.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
24	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	tombs	tomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	under	under	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the king | the way |  | the gate | then | to the courtyard behind the palace; into a beautiful garden | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to courtyard=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | participle |  | two splendid tombs |  | a green space under the trees |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tomb=Theme in space=Destination |

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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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