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title: The Emperor had them brought to him in the great hall, where the Pri… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Emperor had them brought to him in the great hall, where the Princess was playing ‘Here comes a duke a-riding’ with her ladies-in-waiting. Who acts: Emperor, melodies, Princess. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 12

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The Emperor had them brought to him in the great hall, where the Princess was playing ‘Here comes a duke a-riding’ with her ladies-in-waiting.

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**Who acts:** Emperor, melodies, Princess · **What happens:** have, bring, play, come · **To what, where:** melodies, Emperor, great hall, duke, waiting

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor, melodies, Princess), 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:pg640:43:12
# text = The Emperor had them brought to him in the great hall, where the Princess was playing ‘Here comes a duke a-riding’ with her ladies-in-waiting.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	parataxis	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	duke	duke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | past | the Emperor | melodies *= melody* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | participle | melodies *= melody* *not said here* |  | Emperor | the great hall |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination |
| 3 | **play** | past · progressive | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | present |  | a duke |  | waiting; here |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location duke=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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