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title: The guards saluted him respectfully, and a messenger was sent to the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The guards saluted him respectfully, and a messenger was sent to the Princess to announce the arrival of Charming as ambassador of her neighbor the King. Who acts: guards, Charming. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 68

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The guards saluted him respectfully, and a messenger was sent to the Princess to announce the arrival of Charming as ambassador of her neighbor the King.

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**Who acts:** guards, Charming · **What happens:** salute, send, announce, arrive · **To what, where:** Hark, messenger, Princess, arrival

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, Charming), 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:pg503:28:68
# text = The guards saluted him respectfully, and a messenger was sent to the Princess to announce the arrival of Charming as ambassador of her neighbor the King.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saluted	salute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	announce	announce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **salute** | past | the guards | Hark |  |  |  | respectfully *property* | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 2 | **send** | past · passive |  | a messenger | the Princess |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to princess=Destination |
| 3 | **announce** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | the arrival of Charming |  |  |  | as ambassador of princess's neighbor | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrival=Theme |
| 4 | **arrive** |  | Charming |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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 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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