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title: Meanwhile the King and the Prince, who knew that their sister must h… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile the King and the Prince, who knew that their sister must have arrived, had made themselves smart, and sat expecting every minute to be summoned to greet her. Who acts: King, sister. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 186

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Meanwhile the King and the Prince, who knew that their sister must have arrived, had made themselves smart, and sat expecting every minute to be summoned to greet her.

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**Who acts:** King, sister · **What happens:** know, arrive, make, sit, expect, summon · **To what, where:** King, sister

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, sister), 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:pg540:11:186
# text = Meanwhile the King and the Prince, who knew that their sister must have arrived, had made themselves smart, and sat expecting every minute to be summoned to greet her.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
24	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	summoned	summon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	greet	greet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | the King and the Prince |  |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **arrive** | must · perfect | King's sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past · perfect |  | King |  |  |  | smart *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product |
| 4 | **sit** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **expect** | gerund |  |  |  |  | minute |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **summon** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 7 | **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive |  |  | sister |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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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