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title: When he arrived there, the King was standing out on the steps, and h… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he arrived there, the King was standing out on the steps, and how he did stare at the man who came riding up! Who acts: ‘, King, man. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 19

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When he arrived there, the King was standing out on the steps, and how he did stare at the man who came riding up!

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**Who acts:** ‘, King, man · **What happens:** arrive, stand out, stare, come, ride up

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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, man), 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:pg540:38:19
# text = When he arrived there, the King was standing out on the steps, and how he did stare at the man who came riding up!
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	stare	stare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | ‘ |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand out** | past · progressive | the King |  |  |  |  | on the steps | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location |
| 3 | **stare** | past · do-support | ‘ |  |  |  |  | at the man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at man=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **ride up** | gerund | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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