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title: As they stood there the king’s son told his three servants to go and… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As they stood there the king’s son told his three servants to go and fetch the maiden’s parents to be present at the wedding feast. Who acts: stairs, son. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 46

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As they stood there the king’s son told his three servants to go and fetch the maiden’s parents to be present at the wedding feast.

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**Who acts:** stairs, son · **What happens:** stand, tell, go, fetch, be · **To what, where:** three servants, parents, wedding feast · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stairs, son), 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:pg5615:3:46
# text = As they stood there the king’s son told his three servants to go and fetch the maiden’s parents to be present at the wedding feast.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	iobj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | stairs *= stair* |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the king's son |  | son's three servants |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the king's son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fetch** | infinitive | the king's son *not said here* | the maiden's parents |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | the king's son *not said here* |  |  | the wedding feast |  | present *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 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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