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title: Now it happened one day that the King of the land held a hunt in thi… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it happened one day that the King of the land held a hunt in this wood, and saw the Snow-daughter wandering about in the open air. Who acts: it, King, Snow daughter. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 34

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Now it happened one day that the King of the land held a hunt in this wood, and saw the Snow-daughter wandering about in the open air.

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**Who acts:** it, King, Snow daughter · **What happens:** happen, hold, see, wonder · **To what, where:** hunt, wood, Snow daughter, open air

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, King, Snow daughter), 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:pg640:36:34
# text = Now it happened one day that the King of the land held a hunt in this wood, and saw the Snow-daughter wandering about in the open air.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  | now; day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | past | the King of the land | a hunt |  | this wood |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hunt=Theme in wood=Location |
| 3 | **see** | past |  | the Snow daughter |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus |
| 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | the Snow daughter *not said here* |  |  | the open air |  | about *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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