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title: He went at once to the royal chamber, and asked the bride who it was… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He went at once to the royal chamber, and asked the bride who it was she had brought with her and had left thus standing in the court below. Who acts: King, bride. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 28

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He went at once to the royal chamber, and asked the bride who it was she had brought with her and had left thus standing in the court below.

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**Who acts:** King, bride · **What happens:** go, ask, be, bring, leave, stand · **To what, where:** royal chamber, bride, court · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, bride), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg503:2889`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:37:28
# text = He went at once to the royal chamber, and asked the bride who it was she had brought with her and had left thus standing in the court below.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	2	advmod	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	fixed	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	ccomp	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	expl	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
25	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	xcomp	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	below	below	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | King |  |  | the royal chamber |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to chamber=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | King *not said here* |  | the bride |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bride=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | past · perfect | bride |  |  |  |  | with Princess | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **leave** | past · perfect | bride *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **stand** | gerund | bride *not said here* |  |  | the court |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in court=Location |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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