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title: On the third morning the king got up as usual before dawn, and as so… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 144

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On the third morning the king got up as usual before dawn, and as soon as he had eaten food he prepared to go out, when his wife stopped him.

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**Who acts:** king, wife · **What happens:** get up, eat, prepare, go out, stop · **To what, where:** food, King

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, wife), 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:pg3454:8:144
# text = On the third morning the king got up as usual before dawn, and as soon as he had eaten food he prepared to go out, when his wife stopped him.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** | past | the king |  |  |  | dawn; morning | as usual | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as usual=Attribute |
| 2 | **eat** | past · perfect | King | food |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 3 | **prepare** | past | King |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **go out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stop** | past | King's wife | King |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector he=Eventuality |

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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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