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title: At this moment in came the King and Queen, and interrupted them by a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 54

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At this moment in came the King and Queen, and interrupted them by asking all the questions imaginable, and not infrequently the same over and over again.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** come, interrupt, ask · **To what, where:** King, questions

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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), 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:pg7277:17:54
# text = At this moment in came the King and Queen, and interrupted them by asking all the questions imaginable, and not infrequently the same over and over again.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	nmod	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
23	infrequently	infrequently	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
26	over	over	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	over	over	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the King and Queen |  |  |  | moment |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **interrupt** | past | the King and Queen *not said here* | King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | the King and Queen *not said here* | all questions |  |  |  | imaginable *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |

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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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