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title: Very soon after came the news that King Charming, who was the most h… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Very soon after came the news that King Charming, who was the most handsome and magnificent Prince in all the country round, was on his way to visit the King. Who acts: Charming. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 20

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Very soon after came the news that King Charming, who was the most handsome and magnificent Prince in all the country round, was on his way to visit the King.

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**Who acts:** Charming · **What happens:** come, be, visit · **To what, where:** news, country, way, King

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charming), 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:pg7277:2:20
# text = Very soon after came the news that King Charming, who was the most handsome and magnificent Prince in all the country round, was on his way to visit the King.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	15	advmod	_	_
15	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	round	round	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | the news  Charming  King |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location news=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Charming  King |  |  | all country |  | handsome *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | King's way |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **visit** | to-infinitive |  | the King |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-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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