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title: When the King’s daughter got to church all the people were standing… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the King’s daughter got to church all the people were standing outside upon the hillside, and all of them wondered who on earth she could be, and the Prince was on the alert in a moment, and came and wanted to hold her horse while she alighted. Who acts: daughter, people, all, Prince. A sentenc
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 49

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When the King’s daughter got to church all the people were standing outside upon the hillside, and all of them wondered who on earth she could be, and the Prince was on the alert in a moment, and came and wanted to hold her horse while she alighted.

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**Who acts:** daughter, people, all, Prince · **What happens:** get, stand, wonder, be, come, want · **To what, where:** church, hillside, alert, horse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, 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 (daughter, people, all, Prince), 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:pg540:30:49
# text = When the King’s daughter got to church all the people were standing outside upon the hillside, and all of them wondered who on earth she could be, and the Prince was on the alert in a moment, and came and wanted to hold her horse while she alighted.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hillside	hillside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	ccomp	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	alert	alert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
48	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	alighted	alight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the King's daughter | church |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer church=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | all people |  |  | the hillside |  | outside *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon hillside=Location |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | all |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | the Prince |  |  | the alert | moment |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **want** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 8 | **hold** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | daughter's horse |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 9 | **alight** | participle | daughter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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