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title: After this they went to see Sabella; but they had no sooner entered… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After this they went to see Sabella; but they had no sooner entered her presence than they cried out with one accord: Who acts: King. 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 8

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After this they went to see Sabella; but they had no sooner entered her presence than they cried out with one accord:

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** go, see, have, enter, cry out · **To what, where:** Sabella, presence

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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), 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:pg7277:16:8
# text = After this they went to see Sabella; but they had no sooner entered her presence than they cried out with one accord:
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	Sabella	Sabella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	accord	accord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | King |  |  |  | after this |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | Sabella |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sabella=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **enter** | past | King *not said here* | Sabella's presence |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme presence=Destination |
| 5 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | King |  |  |  |  | with one accord | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with accord=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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