--- title: Then all the court applauded, and the king and queen accepted Jesper… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then all the court applauded, and the king and queen accepted Jesper as their son-in-law, and the princess was very well pleased, for by this time she had quite fallen in love with him, because he was so handsome and so clever. Who acts: court, king, princess. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/160/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [Jesper Who Herded the Hares](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/) / 160 # The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 160 Then all the court applauded, and the king and queen accepted Jesper as their son-in-law, and the princess was very well pleased, for by this time she had quite fallen in love with him, because he was so handsome and so clever. **Who acts:** court, king, princess · **What happens:** applaud, accept, be, fall · **To what, where:** Jesper, love This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (court, king, princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:24:160 # text = Then all the court applauded, and the king and queen accepted Jesper as their son-in-law, and the princess was very well pleased, for by this time she had quite fallen in love with him, because he was so handsome and so clever. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 4 det:predet _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 applauded applaud VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 accepted accept VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 Jesper Jesper PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 28 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 33 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 quite quite ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 43 because because SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 46 so so ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 conj _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 49 so so ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 50 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **applaud** | past | all court | | | | then | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **accept** | past | the king and queen | Jesper | | | | as law | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent jesper=Theme as law=Attribute | | 3 | **is** | past | the princess | | | | | pleased, well *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **fall** | past · perfect | princess | | | love with king | time | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | | 5 | **is** | past | king | | | | | handsome *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | king *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/159/) - next →: [sentence 161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/161/) - ↑ back to [Jesper Who Herded the Hares](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/)