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title: The King’s first act on reaching home was to thank Heaven for the vi… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King’s first act on reaching home was to thank Heaven for the victory he had gained over the enemies who had risen against him. Who acts: first act, King, enemies. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 50

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The King’s first act on reaching home was to thank Heaven for the victory he had gained over the enemies who had risen against him.

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**Who acts:** first act, King, enemies · **What happens:** reach, be, gain, rise, act · **To what, where:** home, victory, enemies

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first act, King, enemies), 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:pg540:12:50
# text = The King’s first act on reaching home was to thank Heaven for the victory he had gained over the enemies who had risen against him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	against	against	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | gerund | the King's first act *not said here* | home |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the King's first act |  |  |  |  | for the victory; thank *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **gain** | past · perfect | King | the victory *not said here* |  | the enemies |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Theme |
| 4 | **rise** | past · perfect | the enemies |  |  |  |  | against King | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against he=Location |
| 5 | **act** |  | the King |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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