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title: The whole of the royal family came down to the ship to receive him,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The whole of the royal family came down to the ship to receive him, and the whole way the queen and the elder princess teased the sister about the dirty husband she was going to have. Who acts: whole, queen. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, with its d
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 68

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The whole of the royal family came down to the ship to receive him, and the whole way the queen and the elder princess teased the sister about the dirty husband she was going to have.

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**Who acts:** whole, queen · **What happens:** come down, receive, tease, go, have · **To what, where:** ship, hair, whole way, sister

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole, queen), 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:pg5615:39:68
# text = The whole of the royal family came down to the ship to receive him, and the whole way the queen and the elder princess teased the sister about the dirty husband she was going to have.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	teased	tease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	iobj	_	_
29	about	about	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | past | the whole |  |  | the ship |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ship=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **receive** | to-infinitive | the whole *not said here* | hair |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **tease** | past | the queen and the elder princess | the whole way *not said here* | the sister |  |  | about the dirty husband | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | past · progressive | queen | the whole way |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **have** | to-infinitive | queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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