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title: And at last one day they reached that distant kingdom, and, going at… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And at last one day they reached that distant kingdom, and, going at once to the palace, they began to make friends with all the dogs and cats in the place, and to question them about the Princess and the magic ring; but no one could tell them much about either. Who acts: rolls, one. A sentence of «
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 166

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And at last one day they reached that distant kingdom, and, going at once to the palace, they began to make friends with all the dogs and cats in the place, and to question them about the Princess and the magic ring; but no one could tell them much about either.

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**Who acts:** rolls, one · **What happens:** reach, go, begin, make, question, tell · **To what, where:** distant kingdom, palace, friends, place, rolls · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rolls, one), 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:pg640:33:166
# text = And at last one day they reached that distant kingdom, and, going at once to the palace, they began to make friends with all the dogs and cats in the place, and to question them about the Princess and the magic ring; but no one could tell them much about either.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	question	question	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	about	about	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
49	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	50	det	_	_
50	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
51	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
53	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	iobj	_	_
54	much	much	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
55	about	about	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	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 | rolls *= roll* | distant kingdom |  |  | day |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | rolls *= roll* *not said here* |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **begin** | past | rolls *= roll* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | rolls *= roll* *not said here* | friends |  | the place |  | with all dogs and cats | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product |
| 5 | **question** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | rolls *= roll* |  |  |  | about the Princess and the magic ring | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about princess=Topic |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | no one |  | rolls *= roll* |  |  | either *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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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