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title: He was received in the most; friendly manner, and, to his surprise,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was received in the most; friendly manner, and, to his surprise, his master exclaimed, ‘I am very well satisfied with you. Who acts: master, I, prince. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 99

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He was received in the most; friendly manner, and, to his surprise, his master exclaimed, ‘I am very well satisfied with you.

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**Who acts:** master, I, prince · **What happens:** receive, exclaim, be, surprise · **To what, where:** prince, friendly manner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, I, 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:pg641:10:99
# text = He was received in the most; friendly manner, and, to his surprise, his master exclaimed, ‘I am very well satisfied with you.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	ccomp	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past · passive |  | prince |  | the friendly manner |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in manner=Location |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | prince's master |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | with you; satisfied, well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **surprise** |  | prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom surprise «feeling 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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