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title: Lastly the rumour of these wonders reached the ears of the king, who… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Lastly the rumour of these wonders reached the ears of the king, who left his palace to behold these splendours with his own eyes. Who acts: rumour, king, wonders. 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 c
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 76

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Lastly the rumour of these wonders reached the ears of the king, who left his palace to behold these splendours with his own eyes.

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**Who acts:** rumour, king, wonders · **What happens:** reach, leave, behold, rumour · **To what, where:** ears, palace, splendours

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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 (rumour, king, wonders), 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:pg5615:37:76
# text = Lastly the rumour of these wonders reached the ears of the king, who left his palace to behold these splendours with his own eyes.
1	Lastly	lastly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rumour	rumour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	splendours	splendour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | the rumour of this wonders | the ears of the king |  |  |  | lastly *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | past | the king | Ciccu's palace |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |
| 3 | **behold** | infinitive | the king *not said here* | this splendours |  |  |  | with Ciccu's own eyes | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer splendour=Stimulus |
| 4 | **rumour** |  | this wonders |  |  |  |  |  | nom rumour «communication intransitive»: of=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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