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title: When the time for the young Prince’s christening came the King chose… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the time for the young Prince’s christening came the King chose as godmother a neighbouring Princess, so celebrated for her wisdom and goodness that she was commonly called ‘the Good Queen.’ Who acts: time, King, young Prince. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Moun
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 68

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When the time for the young Prince’s christening came the King chose as godmother a neighbouring Princess, so celebrated for her wisdom and goodness that she was commonly called ‘the Good Queen.’

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**Who acts:** time, King, young Prince · **What happens:** come, choose, neighbour, celebrate, call, christen · **To what, where:** neighbouring Princess, Princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, King, young Prince), 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:pg640:22:68
# text = When the time for the young Prince’s christening came the King chose as godmother a neighbouring Princess, so celebrated for her wisdom and goodness that she was commonly called ‘the Good Queen.’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	christening	christening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	godmother	godmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
30	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
32	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the time for the young Prince's christening |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **choose** | past | the King | a neighbouring Princess |  |  |  | as godmother | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme |
| 3 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **celebrate** | participle | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Princess's wisdom and goodness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for wisdom=Attribute |
| 5 | **call** | past · passive |  | Princess |  |  |  | commonly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 6 | **christen** |  | the young Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom christening «act transitive»: poss=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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