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title: When the King heard the news that his daughter had actually laughed,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the King heard the news that his daughter had actually laughed, he was more than delighted, and had Peter and his marvellous train brought before him. Who acts: King, daughter. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 58

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When the King heard the news that his daughter had actually laughed, he was more than delighted, and had Peter and his marvellous train brought before him.

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**Who acts:** King, daughter · **What happens:** hear, laugh, be, have, bring · **To what, where:** news, Peter, marvellous train

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, daughter), 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:pg7277:23:58
# text = When the King heard the news that his daughter had actually laughed, he was more than delighted, and had Peter and his marvellous train brought before him.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	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	_	12	mark	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	obj	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	before	before	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the King | the news |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus |
| 2 | **laugh** | past · perfect | King's daughter |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | King |  |  |  |  | than delighted; more *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | the King *not said here* | Peter and Peter's marvellous train |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peter=Patient |
| 5 | **bring** | participle |  | Peter's marvellous train *not said here* |  |  | before Peter |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination |

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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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