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title: When the king and queen heard this for the third time they could thi… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the king and queen heard this for the third time they could think of no better plan than to invite the lindorm to the palace, and they should find him a mate. Who acts: king, lindorm. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 124

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When the king and queen heard this for the third time they could think of no better plan than to invite the lindorm to the palace, and they should find him a mate.

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**Who acts:** king, lindorm · **What happens:** hear, think, invite, find · **To what, where:** this, third time, lindorm, king

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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 (king, lindorm), 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:pg5615:32:124
# text = When the king and queen heard this for the third time they could think of no better plan than to invite the lindorm to the palace, and they should find him a mate.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
17	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	invite	invite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the king and queen | this |  |  | time |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | could | lindorm | the third time *not said here* |  |  |  | of no better plan | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot time=Theme |
| 3 | **invite** | to-infinitive | lindorm *not said here* | the lindorm |  |  |  | to the palace | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lindorm=Recipient |
| 4 | **find** | should | lindorm | king |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme mate=Attribute |

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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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