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title: The king loved figs, and ordered Peppe to be admitted to his presenc… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king loved figs, and ordered Peppe to be admitted to his presence, and a silver dish to be brought on which to put the figs. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 116

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The king loved figs, and ordered Peppe to be admitted to his presence, and a silver dish to be brought on which to put the figs.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** love, order, admit, bring, put · **To what, where:** figs, Peppe, presence, silver dish

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg5615:37:116
# text = The king loved figs, and ordered Peppe to be admitted to his presence, and a silver dish to be brought on which to put the figs.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	Peppe	Peppe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	admitted	admit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | the king | figs |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fig=Stimulus |
| 2 | **order** | past |  |  | Peppe |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent peppe=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **admit** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  | king's presence |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: to presence=Recipient |
| 4 | **bring** | to-infinitive · passive |  | a silver dish |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme which=Destination |
| 5 | **put** | to-infinitive |  | the figs |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fig=Goal |

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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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