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title: There was joy and gladness in the palace, as may be imagined, and th… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There was joy and gladness in the palace, as may be imagined, and the King did not know how to show enough honour and respect to Ritter Red. Who acts: joy, King. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 54

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There was joy and gladness in the palace, as may be imagined, and the King did not know how to show enough honour and respect to Ritter Red.

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**Who acts:** joy, King · **What happens:** be, imagine, not know, show · **To what, where:** enough honour, Ritter Red

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (joy, King), 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:pg540:45:54
# text = There was joy and gladness in the palace, as may be imagined, and the King did not know how to show enough honour and respect to Ritter Red.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	gladness	gladness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | joy and gladness in the palace |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **imagine** | may · passive | joy and gladness in the palace *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF» |
| 3 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **show** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | enough honour and respect | Ritter Red |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent honour=Topic to red=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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