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title: When they reached the palace everyone crowded round to welcome them… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they reached the palace everyone crowded round to welcome them as they went into the King’s great hall; and when the two brothers presented their little dogs nobody could decide which was the prettier. Who acts: brothers, two brothers, little dogs. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 80

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When they reached the palace everyone crowded round to welcome them as they went into the King’s great hall; and when the two brothers presented their little dogs nobody could decide which was the prettier.

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**Who acts:** brothers, two brothers, little dogs · **What happens:** reach, crowd, welcome, go, present, decide · **To what, where:** everyone, brothers, great hall · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, two brothers, little dogs), 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:pg503:23:80
# text = When they reached the palace everyone crowded round to welcome them as they went into the King’s great hall; and when the two brothers presented their little dogs nobody could decide which was the prettier.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	_
7	crowded	crowd	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	round	round	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	welcome	welcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	33	nsubj	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	parataxis	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	prettier	pretty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | brothers *= brother* | everyone |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme |
| 2 | **crowd** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **welcome** | to-infinitive |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  | the King's great hall |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **present** | past | the two brothers |  |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **decide** | could | brothers's little dogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | tree rules |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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