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title: When the prince had ridden some distance he came to an inn, in which… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the prince had ridden some distance he came to an inn, in which there were many guests, all of whom were merry, and drank and sang and played at dice. Who acts: king, many guests, all. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 90

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When the prince had ridden some distance he came to an inn, in which there were many guests, all of whom were merry, and drank and sang and played at dice.

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**Who acts:** king, many guests, all · **What happens:** ride, come, be, drink, sing, play · **To what, where:** prince, inn, dice

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, many guests, all), 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:pg5615:14:90
# text = When the prince had ridden some distance he came to an inn, in which there were many guests, all of whom were merry, and drank and sang and played at dice.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	ridden	ride	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	dice	dice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past · perfect · passive |  | the prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | king |  |  | a inn |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **be** | past | many guests |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | merry *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **drink** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **play** | past |  |  |  | dice |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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