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title: As the king rode up, the gardener looked up from the tree which he w… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As the king rode up, the gardener looked up from the tree which he was trimming and asked if anything was the matter. Who acts: king, gardener, tree, anything. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 64

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As the king rode up, the gardener looked up from the tree which he was trimming and asked if anything was the matter.

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**Who acts:** king, gardener, tree, anything · **What happens:** ride up, look up, trim, ask, be · **To what, where:** matter

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, gardener, tree, anything), 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:pg641:42:64
# text = As the king rode up, the gardener looked up from the tree which he was trimming and asked if anything was the matter.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	trimming	trim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride up** | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look up** | past | the gardener |  |  |  |  | from the tree | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from tree=Theme |
| 3 | **trim** | past · progressive | the tree |  |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the gardener *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | anything | the matter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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