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title: When he reached them, of course he recognised the Princess, and he w… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he reached them, of course he recognised the Princess, and he went down on his knees and kissed her hand quite joyfully. Who acts: Hat. 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 22

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When he reached them, of course he recognised the Princess, and he went down on his knees and kissed her hand quite joyfully.

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**Who acts:** Hat · **What happens:** reach, recognise, go down, kiss · **To what, where:** ladies, Princess, knees, hand

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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 (Hat), 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:pg540:5:22
# text = When he reached them, of course he recognised the Princess, and he went down on his knees and kissed her hand quite joyfully.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	9	advmod	_	_
7	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	fixed	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | Hat | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **recognise** | past | Hat | the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go down** | past | Hat |  |  | Hat's knees |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location |
| 4 | **kiss** | past | Hat *not said here* | Chatterer's hand |  |  |  | joyfully *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-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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