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title: But when the time came near for King Lindorm to return home from the… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the time came near for King Lindorm to return home from the war the old retainer grew frightened because he had not obeyed his orders. Who acts: time, old retainer, king. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 64

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But when the time came near for King Lindorm to return home from the war the old retainer grew frightened because he had not obeyed his orders.

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**Who acts:** time, old retainer, king · **What happens:** come, return, grow, frighten, not obey, order · **To what, where:** war, orders

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, old retainer, 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:pg5615:33:64
# text = But when the time came near for King Lindorm to return home from the war the old retainer grew frightened because he had not obeyed his orders.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	near	near	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Lindorm	Lindorm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	home	home	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	retainer	retainer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	xcomp	_	_
21	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	obeyed	obey	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the time |  |  |  |  | for King Lindorm; near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the war |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from war=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the old retainer | the war *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **frighten** | participle | the old retainer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **obey** | past · perfect | king | king's orders |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 6 | **order** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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