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title: The King having suitably acknowledged the honour done him, was next… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King having suitably acknowledged the honour done him, was next reconciled to Gorgonzola, and they two presently opened the ball together. Who acts: King, honour. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 67

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The King having suitably acknowledged the honour done him, was next reconciled to Gorgonzola, and they two presently opened the ball together.

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**Who acts:** King, honour · **What happens:** have, acknowledge, do, reconcile, open · **To what, where:** honour, Sire, Gorgonzola, ball

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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, honour), 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:pg7277:17:67
# text = The King having suitably acknowledged the honour done him, was next reconciled to Gorgonzola, and they two presently opened the ball together.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	suitably	suitably	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	acknowledged	acknowledge	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	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	next	next	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	reconciled	reconcile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Gorgonzola	Gorgonzola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	appos	_	_
20	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	together	together	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | suitably *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **acknowledge** | past | the King | the honour |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | participle | the honour *not said here* | Sire |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 4 | **reconcile** | past · passive | the King *not said here* |  | Gorgonzola |  |  | next *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **open** | past | King | the ball |  |  |  | presently, together *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ball=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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