--- title: All who met him bade him welcome, and he charged his father and moth… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: All who met him bade him welcome, and he charged his father and mother not to kiss him, but as he greeted them his old greyhound leapt on his neck, and kissed him on the mouth. Who acts: son. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:29:73 # text = All who met him bade him welcome, and he charged his father and mother not to kiss him, but as he greeted them his old greyhound leapt on his neck, and kissed him on the mouth. 1 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 bade bade NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 welcome welcome VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 charged charge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 kiss kiss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 greeted greet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 27 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 greyhound greyhound NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 leapt leapt NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 kissed kiss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | past | | son | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 2 | **welcome** | present | son | all bade | | | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **charge** | past | son | son's father and mother | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location father=Theme | | 4 | **not** **kiss** | to-infinitive | son *not said here* | son | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 5 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | son | son's old greyhound leapt | man | son's neck | | | tree rules | | 6 | **kiss** | past | son *not said here* | son | | the mouth | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/29/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/29/74/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/29/)