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title: There was now joy in all the palace and over the whole country on ac… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There was now joy in all the palace and over the whole country on account of the beautiful prince; but no one knew that the queen’s first-born was a lindorm, and lay in the wild forest. Who acts: joy, one, queen. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, with 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 110

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There was now joy in all the palace and over the whole country on account of the beautiful prince; but no one knew that the queen’s first-born was a lindorm, and lay in the wild forest.

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**Who acts:** joy, one, queen · **What happens:** be, know, bear, lay, account · **To what, where:** queen, lindorm, wild forest, beautiful prince · **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 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, one, queen), 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:pg5615:32:110
# text = There was now joy in all the palace and over the whole country on account of the beautiful prince; but no one knew that the queen’s first-born was a lindorm, and lay in the wild forest.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | joy in all palace and the whole country on account of the beautiful prince |  |  | there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | past | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **bear** | participle |  | the queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the queen | a lindorm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lay** | infinitive | no one *not said here* |  |  | the wild forest |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in forest=Destination |
| 6 | **account** |  |  | the beautiful prince |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication 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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