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title: At length a servant arrived and led him up into a beautiful room fil… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 53

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At length a servant arrived and led him up into a beautiful room filled with people, who were either playing on musical instruments or talking in a lively manner, which astonished the king, who stood silently listening, and not at all pleased at the want of attention paid him.

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**Who acts:** servant, people, lively manner, king · **What happens:** arrive, lead up, fill, play, talk, astonish · **To what, where:** length, servant, beautiful room, musical instruments, lively manner, king

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, people, lively manner, 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:pg5615:30:53
# text = At length a servant arrived and led him up into a beautiful room filled with people, who were either playing on musical instruments or talking in a lively manner, which astonished the king, who stood silently listening, and not at all pleased at the want of attention paid him.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
21	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	lively	lively	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	astonished	astonish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
39	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	obl	_	_
46	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	advcl	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
52	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
53	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | a servant |  |  | length |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lead up** | past | a servant *not said here* | servant |  | a beautiful room |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fill** | participle |  | a beautiful room *not said here* |  |  |  | with people | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with people=Instrument |
| 4 | **play** | past · progressive | people |  |  | musical instruments |  | either *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **talk** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  | a lively manner |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **astonish** | past | a lively manner | the king |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer |
| 7 | **stand** | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **listen** | gerund | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | silently *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **pay** | past | a servant *not said here* | king |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset |
| 10 | **want** |  |  | attention |  |  |  |  | nom want «state transitive»: of=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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