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title: The king alone did not move from his seat, for he had forgotten the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king alone did not move from his seat, for he had forgotten the hall of justice and all about him, and saw only the apple-orchard, as it was twenty years ago, and the beautiful girl playing at ball. Who acts: king, orchard, beautiful girl. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 103

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The king alone did not move from his seat, for he had forgotten the hall of justice and all about him, and saw only the apple-orchard, as it was twenty years ago, and the beautiful girl playing at ball.

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**Who acts:** king, orchard, beautiful girl · **What happens:** not move, forget, see, be, play · **To what, where:** seat, hall, apple orchard, ball

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, orchard, beautiful girl), 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:pg3454:3:103
# text = The king alone did not move from his seat, for he had forgotten the hall of justice and all about him, and saw only the apple-orchard, as it was twenty years ago, and the beautiful girl playing at ball.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	orchard	orchard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
43	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	acl	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **move** | past · do-support | the king |  |  | king's seat |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from seat=Trajectory |
| 2 | **forget** | past · perfect | king | the hall of justice |  |  |  | about Man | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past |  | the apple orchard |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer orchard=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | orchard |  |  |  | year | ago *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **play** | gerund | the beautiful girl *not said here* |  |  | ball |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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