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title: As soon as the king heard this song he ran out to meet the lute play… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the king heard this song he ran out to meet the lute player, took him by the hand and led him into the palace. Who acts: king, song. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 70

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As soon as the king heard this song he ran out to meet the lute player, took him by the hand and led him into the palace.

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**Who acts:** king, song · **What happens:** hear, run out, meet, take, lead · **To what, where:** song, lute player, palace

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, song), 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:pg641:8:70
# text = As soon as the king heard this song he ran out to meet the lute player, took him by the hand and led him into the palace.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	lute	lute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the king | this song |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus |
| 2 | **run out** | past | song |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | song *not said here* | the lute player |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent player=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **take** | past | song *not said here* |  | song |  |  | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 5 | **lead** | past | song *not said here* | song |  | the palace |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into palace=Destination |

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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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