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title: His return was the signal for great public rejoicings, and the King… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His return was the signal for great public rejoicings, and the King was so overcome that he became quite speechless, and did nothing but embrace his son. Who acts: return, King, Rosimond. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 42

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His return was the signal for great public rejoicings, and the King was so overcome that he became quite speechless, and did nothing but embrace his son.

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**Who acts:** return, King, Rosimond · **What happens:** be, become, do, embrace, return · **To what, where:** signal, nothing, son

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (return, King, Rosimond), 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:pg7277:19:42
# text = His return was the signal for great public rejoicings, and the King was so overcome that he became quite speechless, and did nothing but embrace his son.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	overcome	overcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
20	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	speechless	speechless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	obj	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	embrace	embrace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	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 | **is a** | past | Rosimond's return | the signal |  |  |  | for great public rejoicings | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the King |  |  |  |  | overcome *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | past | King |  |  |  |  | speechless *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **do** | past | King *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 5 | **embrace** | infinitive | King *not said here* | Rosimond's son |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **return** |  | Rosimond |  |  |  |  |  | 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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