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title: Meanwhile King Lindorm had come home from the war, and the first que… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile King Lindorm had come home from the war, and the first question he asked when he entered the palace was about the queen and the whelps. Who acts: Meanwhile, first question. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 1

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Meanwhile King Lindorm had come home from the war, and the first question he asked when he entered the palace was about the queen and the whelps.

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**Who acts:** Meanwhile, first question · **What happens:** come, ask, enter, be · **To what, where:** war, first question, palace · **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 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meanwhile, first question), 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:pg5615:34:1
# text = Meanwhile King Lindorm had come home from the war, and the first question he asked when he entered the palace was about the queen and the whelps.
1	Meanwhile	Meanwhile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Lindorm	Lindorm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	whelps	whelp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect | Meanwhile |  |  | the war |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from war=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Meanwhile | the first question *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent question=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **enter** | past | Meanwhile | the palace |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past | the first question |  |  |  |  | about the queen and the whelps | 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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