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title: At the Palace gate he left everything lying, went before the King, a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 80

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At the Palace gate he left everything lying, went before the King, and asked him to come that length with him, and there handed over to him the hides and horns of the oxen.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** leave, lie, go, ask, come, hand over · **To what, where:** everything, Palace gate, Prince, length, hides

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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 (Prince), 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:pg640:42:80
# text = At the Palace gate he left everything lying, went before the King, and asked him to come that length with him, and there handed over to him the hides and horns of the oxen.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obj	_	_
8	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	hides	hide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | Prince | everything |  | the Palace gate |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent everything=Theme at gate=Location |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  | before the King |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before king=Location |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Prince |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | that length |  |  |  | with Prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location length=Theme |
| 6 | **hand over** | participle |  | the hides and horns of the oxen | Prince | there |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hide=Theme to he=Destination |

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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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