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title: Ring thanked the King courteously for this and all his other kindnes… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ring thanked the King courteously for this and all his other kindnesses, and as soon as he had finished eating and drinking in the hall went off to sleep in his own room. Who acts: Ring. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30), with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 145

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Ring thanked the King courteously for this and all his other kindnesses, and as soon as he had finished eating and drinking in the hall went off to sleep in his own room.

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**Who acts:** Ring · **What happens:** thank, finish, eat, drink, go off, sleep · **To what, where:** other kindnesses, King, hall, own room

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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 (Ring), 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:pg640:42:145
# text = Ring thanked the King courteously for this and all his other kindnesses, and as soon as he had finished eating and drinking in the hall went off to sleep in his own room.
1	Ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	courteously	courteously	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	kindnesses	kindness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
21	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	off	off	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | Ring | Ring's other kindnesses | the King |  |  | for this; courteously *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **finish** | past · perfect | Ring |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | Ring *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drink** | gerund | Ring *not said here* |  |  | the hall |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go off** | past | Ring *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Ring *not said here* |  |  | Ring's own room |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |

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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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