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title: The King soon sent for him to congratulate him upon his success, and… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King soon sent for him to congratulate him upon his success, and to offer him a lodging in the Palace, which he joyfully accepted. Who acts: King, Mannikin. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 39

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The King soon sent for him to congratulate him upon his success, and to offer him a lodging in the Palace, which he joyfully accepted.

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**Who acts:** King, Mannikin · **What happens:** send, congratulate, offer, accept · **To what, where:** Mannikin, lodging

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Mannikin), 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:pg7277:16:39
# text = The King soon sent for him to congratulate him upon his success, and to offer him a lodging in the Palace, which he joyfully accepted.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	congratulate	congratulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lodging	lodging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the King |  |  |  |  | for Mannikin; soon *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **congratulate** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | Mannikin |  |  |  | upon Mannikin's success | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **offer** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | a lodging | Mannikin |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal lodging=Theme |
| 4 | **accept** | past | Mannikin | a lodging |  |  |  | joyfully *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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