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title: Now after some time it happened one day when the King was out huntin… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now after some time it happened one day when the King was out hunting that the Queen gave birth to a beautiful little boy. Who acts: it, King, Queen. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 87

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Now after some time it happened one day when the King was out hunting that the Queen gave birth to a beautiful little boy.

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**Who acts:** it, King, Queen · **What happens:** happen, hunt, give · **To what, where:** birth, beautiful little boy

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, King, Queen), 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:pg540:10:87
# text = Now after some time it happened one day when the King was out hunting that the Queen gave birth to a beautiful little boy.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  | now; day; time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hunt** | past · progressive | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | past | the Queen | birth | a beautiful little boy |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to boy=Recipient |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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