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title: And forthwith she was conducted into the golden presence chamber, wh… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And forthwith she was conducted into the golden presence chamber, where, leaning back amongst cushions of royal purple, the King sat, surrounded by his counsellors and courtiers. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 94

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And forthwith she was conducted into the golden presence chamber, where, leaning back amongst cushions of royal purple, the King sat, surrounded by his counsellors and courtiers.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** conduct, lean back, sit, surround · **To what, where:** woman, golden presence chamber, cushions

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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 (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:pg640:33:94
# text = And forthwith she was conducted into the golden presence chamber, where, leaning back amongst cushions of royal purple, the King sat, surrounded by his counsellors and courtiers.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	purple	purple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	ccomp	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:agent	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | past · passive |  | woman |  | the golden presence chamber |  | forthwith *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into chamber=Destination |
| 2 | **lean back** | gerund |  |  |  | cushions of royal purple |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent amongst cushion=Location |
| 3 | **sit** | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **surround** | participle | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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