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title: The King of the Gold Mines was not less noble and splendid; it was e… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King of the Gold Mines was not less noble and splendid; it was easy to see by his face how happy he was, and everyone who went near him returned loaded with presents, for all round the great banqueting hall had been arranged a thousand barrels full of gold, and numberless bags made of velvet emb
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 27

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The King of the Gold Mines was not less noble and splendid; it was easy to see by his face how happy he was, and everyone who went near him returned loaded with presents, for all round the great banqueting hall had been arranged a thousand barrels full of gold, and numberless bags made of velvet embroidered with pearls and filled with money, each one containing at least a hundred thousand gold pieces, which were given away to everyone who liked to hold out his hand, which numbers of people hastened to do, you may be sure--indeed, some found this by far the most amusing part of the wedding festivities.

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**Who acts:** King, one, numberless bags, some · **What happens:** be, see, go, load, arrange, make · **To what, where:** King, thousand barrels, numberless bags, velvet, thousand gold pieces, everyone

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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, one, numberless bags, some), 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:pg503:6:27
# text = The King of the Gold Mines was not less noble and splendid; it was easy to see by his face how happy he was, and everyone who went near him returned loaded with presents, for all round the great banqueting hall had been arranged a thousand barrels full of gold, and numberless bags made of velvet embroidered with pearls and filled with money, each one containing at least a hundred thousand gold pieces, which were given away to everyone who liked to hold out his hand, which numbers of people hastened to do, you may be sure--indeed, some found this by far the most amusing part of the wedding festivities.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	Mines	Mines	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	expl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
23	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
28	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	34	nsubj	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	near	near	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	loaded	load	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
39	all	all	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
40	round	round	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	banqueting	banqueting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
50	barrels	barrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
51	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	105	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	105	cc	_	_
56	numberless	numberless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	105	nsubj	_	_
58	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	acl	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
61	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	60	acl	_	_
62	with	with	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	obl	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
65	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	61	conj	_	_
66	with	with	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
69	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	70	det	_	_
70	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	appos	_	_
71	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	70	acl	_	_
72	at	at	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
73	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	75	nmod	_	_
74	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	75	det	_	_
75	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	76	compound	_	_
76	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	78	nummod	_	_
77	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	78	compound	_	_
78	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	71	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	82	punct	_	_
80	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	82	nsubj	_	_
81	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	82	aux:pass	_	_
82	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	78	acl:relcl	_	_
83	away	away	ADV	RB	_	82	advmod	_	_
84	to	to	ADP	IN	_	85	case	_	_
85	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	82	obl	_	_
86	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	87	nsubj	_	_
87	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	85	acl:relcl	_	_
88	to	to	PART	TO	_	89	mark	_	_
89	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	87	xcomp	_	_
90	out	out	ADP	RP	_	89	compound:prt	_	_
91	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	92	nmod:poss	_	_
92	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	89	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
93	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	95	punct	_	_
94	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	95	det	_	_
95	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	92	appos	_	_
96	of	of	ADP	IN	_	97	case	_	_
97	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	95	nmod	_	_
98	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	97	acl	_	_
99	to	to	PART	TO	_	100	mark	_	_
100	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	98	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
101	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
102	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	105	nsubj	_	_
103	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	105	aux	_	_
104	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	105	cop	_	_
105	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
106	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	107	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
107	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	105	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
108	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	110	punct	_	_
109	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	110	nsubj	_	_
110	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	105	parataxis	_	_
111	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	110	obj	_	_
112	by	by	ADP	IN	_	117	case	_	_
113	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	117	advmod	_	_
114	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	117	det	_	_
115	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	116	advmod	_	_
116	amusing	amusing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	117	amod	_	_
117	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	110	obl	_	_
118	of	of	ADP	IN	_	121	case	_	_
119	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	121	det	_	_
120	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	121	compound	_	_
121	festivities	festivity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	117	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
122	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 of the Gold |  |  |  |  | less, noble *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the King of the Gold *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the King of the Gold *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | the King of the Gold *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by Mines's face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  | near Mines | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near he=Location |
| 6 | **load** | past · passive |  | King |  |  |  | with presents | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with present=Theme |
| 7 | **arrange** | past · perfect · passive |  | thousand barrels |  |  |  | for the great banqueting hall | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: barrel=Material for hall=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **make** | participle |  | numberless bags *not said here* |  |  |  | of velvet | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 9 | **embroider** | participle |  | velvet *not said here* |  |  |  | with pearls | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=Theme |
| 10 | **fill** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with money | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with money=Instrument |
| 11 | **contain** | gerund | each one *not said here* | thousand gold pieces |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot piece=Theme |
| 12 | **give away** | past · passive |  | thousand gold pieces | everyone |  |  | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to everyone=Recipient |
| 13 | **like** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 14 | **hold out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | Mines's hand |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 15 | **hasten** | participle |  | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 16 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 17 | **is** | may | numberless bags |  |  |  |  | indeed, sure *property* | tree rules |
| 18 | **find** | past | some | this |  |  |  | by the amusing part of the wedding festivities | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic |

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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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