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title: The Court received the new King with joyful acclamations which would… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Court received the new King with joyful acclamations which would have delighted him at any other time, but all his thoughts were full of Fairer-than-a-Fairy. Who acts: Court, thoughts. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, with its dependency tree 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 36

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The Court received the new King with joyful acclamations which would have delighted him at any other time, but all his thoughts were full of Fairer-than-a-Fairy.

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**Who acts:** Court, thoughts · **What happens:** receive, delight, be, think · **To what, where:** new King, joyful acclamations

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Court, thoughts), 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:pg640:24:36
# text = The Court received the new King with joyful acclamations which would have delighted him at any other time, but all his thoughts were full of Fairer-than-a-Fairy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	joyful	joyful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	acclamations	acclamation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	delighted	delight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Fairer	Fairer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | the Court | the new King |  |  |  | with joyful acclamations | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |
| 2 | **delight** | would · perfect · passive |  | joyful acclamations |  |  | time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result |
| 3 | **is** | past | Court's thoughts |  |  |  |  | of Fairer; than a Fairy; full *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** |  | Court |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition 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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