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description: The King was beside himself with joy, and was astonished at how clever a man Ring was in all kinds of feats, so that he esteemed him still more highly than before, and betrothed his daughter to him; and the feast for this was to last all through Christmastide. Who acts: King, joy, Ring, feast. A sen
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 144

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The King was beside himself with joy, and was astonished at how clever a man Ring was in all kinds of feats, so that he esteemed him still more highly than before, and betrothed his daughter to him; and the feast for this was to last all through Christmastide.

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**Who acts:** King, joy, Ring, feast · **What happens:** be, esteem, betroth · **To what, where:** clever, kinds, iron, daughter, Ring, Christmastide

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, joy, Ring, feast), 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:pg640:42:144
# text = The King was beside himself with joy, and was astonished at how clever a man Ring was in all kinds of feats, so that he esteemed him still more highly than before, and betrothed his daughter to him; and the feast for this was to last all through Christmastide.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
14	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	feats	feat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	28	mark	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	esteemed	esteem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	still	still	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
32	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
33	than	than	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	before	before	ADV	RB	_	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	betrothed	betroth	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	45	nmod	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
51	all	all	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
52	through	through	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	Christmastide	Christmastide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the King |  |  |  |  | with joy | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | joy *not said here* |  |  | clever |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | all kinds |  | of feats | tree rules |
| 4 | **esteem** | past | Ring | iron |  |  |  | highly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 5 | **betroth** | past | Ring *not said here* | Ring's daughter | Ring |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to he=Recipient |
| 6 | **is** | past | the feast for this |  |  | Christmastide |  | last *property* | tree rules |

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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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