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title: All the country people were standing round the King’s throne, and we… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All the country people were standing round the King’s throne, and were crowded together in thick masses almost out of the windows to see the Princess receive the suitors; and as each one came into the room all his fine phrases went out like a candle! Who acts: country people, Princess, one, fine phr
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 139

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All the country people were standing round the King’s throne, and were crowded together in thick masses almost out of the windows to see the Princess receive the suitors; and as each one came into the room all his fine phrases went out like a candle!

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**Who acts:** country people, Princess, one, fine phrases, King · **What happens:** stand, crowd together, see, receive, come, go out · **To what, where:** thick masses, Princess, suitors, room

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country people, Princess, one, fine phrases), 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:pg640:50:139
# text = All the country people were standing round the King’s throne, and were crowded together in thick masses almost out of the windows to see the Princess receive the suitors; and as each one came into the room all his fine phrases went out like a candle!
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	round	round	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	crowded	crowd	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
16	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	masses	mass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	suitors	suitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	advcl	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	44	det:predet	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	phrases	phrase	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
45	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
46	out	out	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
47	like	like	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **stand** | past · progressive | all country people |  |  |  |  | round the King's throne | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **crowd together** | past · passive | all country people *not said here* |  |  | thick masses |  | out the windows; together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: in mass=Destination |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | all country people *not said here* | the Princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **receive** | infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | the suitors |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suitor=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | each one |  |  | the room |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **go out** | past | King's fine phrases |  |  |  |  | like a candle | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **phrase** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom phrase «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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