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title: When Jesper presented his pearls to the king there were exclamations… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When Jesper presented his pearls to the king there were exclamations of wonder and delight from everyone who saw them. Who acts: Jesper, exclamations. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 71

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When Jesper presented his pearls to the king there were exclamations of wonder and delight from everyone who saw them.

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**Who acts:** Jesper, exclamations · **What happens:** present, be, see, pearl, exclaim · **To what, where:** pearls, king, exclamations, wonder

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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 (Jesper, exclamations), 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:pg641:24:71
# text = When Jesper presented his pearls to the king there were exclamations of wonder and delight from everyone who saw them.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	exclamations	exclamation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	15	nmod	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** | past | Jesper | Jesper's pearls | the king |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent pearl=Theme to king=Recipient |
| 2 | **be** | past | exclamations of wonder and delight from everyone |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past |  | exclamations *= exclamation* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pearl** |  | Jesper |  |  |  |  |  | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **exclaim** |  |  | wonder and delight from everyone |  |  |  |  | nom exclamation «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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