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title: Their Majesties were overjoyed at the news, and the King sent for a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Their Majesties were overjoyed at the news, and the King sent for a great book, each leaf of which was eight ells long. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 2

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Their Majesties were overjoyed at the news, and the King sent for a great book, each leaf of which was eight ells long.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** overjoy, send, be · **To what, where:** Majesties, news

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg540:5:2
# text = Their Majesties were overjoyed at the news, and the King sent for a great book, each leaf of which was eight ells long.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Majesties	majesty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	ells	ell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overjoy** | past · passive |  | Princess's Majesties |  | the news |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | past | the King |  |  |  |  | for a great book and each leaf | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of each leaf; eight ells *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | 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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