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title: When the king arrived at Diaphana’s Court he found a magnificent rec… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the king arrived at Diaphana’s Court he found a magnificent reception awaiting him, for, though they pretended not to know who he was, secrets like this are never hidden. Who acts: king, magnificent reception, kingdoms. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, pa
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 123

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When the king arrived at Diaphana’s Court he found a magnificent reception awaiting him, for, though they pretended not to know who he was, secrets like this are never hidden.

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**Who acts:** king, magnificent reception, kingdoms · **What happens:** arrive, find, await, pretend, not know, not hide · **To what, where:** Court, magnificent reception, king, secrets · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, magnificent reception, kingdoms), 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:pg5615:29:123
# text = When the king arrived at Diaphana’s Court he found a magnificent reception awaiting him, for, though they pretended not to know who he was, secrets like this are never hidden.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Diaphana	Diaphana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	reception	reception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	awaiting	await	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nmod	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
33	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | the king |  |  | Diaphana's Court |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | king | a magnificent reception |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reception=Topic |
| 3 | **await** | gerund | a magnificent reception *not said here* | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pretend** | past | kingdoms *= kingdom* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **know** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **hide** | present · passive |  | secrets like this |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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