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title: The King was more glad than anyone else that she had come again, and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King was more glad than anyone else that she had come again, and gave orders that the doors should all be shut and bolted that very minute. Who acts: King, Princess. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 87

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The King was more glad than anyone else that she had come again, and gave orders that the doors should all be shut and bolted that very minute.

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**Who acts:** King, Princess · **What happens:** be, come, give, shut, bolt · **To what, where:** orders, doors

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Princess), 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:pg503:31:87
# text = The King was more glad than anyone else that she had come again, and gave orders that the doors should all be shut and bolted that very minute.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
8	else	else	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	bolted	bolt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the King |  |  |  |  | than anyone; glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past · perfect | Princess |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | the King *not said here* | orders |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 4 | **shut** | should · passive |  | the doors |  |  |  | all *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **bolt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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