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title: The king had breakfast laid for him, and sat down at the table with… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king had breakfast laid for him, and sat down at the table with him in person; he kept constantly filling his glass for him and praising him, and drinking his health. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 35

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The king had breakfast laid for him, and sat down at the table with him in person; he kept constantly filling his glass for him and praising him, and drinking his health.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** have, lay, sit down, keep, fill, praise · **To what, where:** breakfast, table, glass, king, health

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. 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:pg5615:7:35
# text = The king had breakfast laid for him, and sat down at the table with him in person; he kept constantly filling his glass for him and praising him, and drinking his health.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	praising	praise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	conj	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the king | breakfast |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient |
| 2 | **lay** | participle |  | breakfast *not said here* |  |  |  | for king | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **sit down** | past | the king *not said here* |  |  | the table |  | with king; in person | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location |
| 4 | **keep** | past | king |  |  |  |  | constantly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fill** | gerund | king *not said here* | king's glass |  |  |  | for king | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent glass=Patient |
| 6 | **praise** | gerund | king *not said here* | king |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 7 | **drink** | gerund | king *not said here* | king's health |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=Patient |

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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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