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title: Then came a courier bearing the congratulations of the King and Quee… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then came a courier bearing the congratulations of the King and Queen, who had just heard of his successful return, and there was even a graceful compliment from Sabella herself. Who acts: King, graceful compliment, foot. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4, wit
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 45

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Then came a courier bearing the congratulations of the King and Queen, who had just heard of his successful return, and there was even a graceful compliment from Sabella herself.

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**Who acts:** King, graceful compliment, foot · **What happens:** come, bear, hear, be, congratulate, return · **To what, where:** courier, congratulations

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, graceful compliment, foot), 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:pg7277:17:45
# text = Then came a courier bearing the congratulations of the King and Queen, who had just heard of his successful return, and there was even a graceful compliment from Sabella herself.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	courier	courier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	congratulations	congratulation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	compliment	compliment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Sabella	Sabella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | a courier |  |  | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location courier=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | gerund |  | the congratulations of the King and Queen |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent congratulation=Patient |
| 3 | **hear** | past · perfect | the King and Queen |  |  |  |  | of foot's successful return | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of return=Stimulus |
| 4 | **be** | past | a graceful compliment from Sabella |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **congratulate** |  | the King and Queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom congratulation «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **return** |  | foot |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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