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title: So the King made a proclamation through his whole kingdom and ladies… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the King made a proclamation through his whole kingdom and ladies came from afar to lay claim to the honour. Who acts: King, ladies. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 35

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So the King made a proclamation through his whole kingdom and ladies came from afar to lay claim to the honour.

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**Who acts:** King, ladies · **What happens:** make, come, lay · **To what, where:** proclamation, whole kingdom, afar, claim

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, ladies), 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:pg7277:24:35
# text = So the King made a proclamation through his whole kingdom and ladies came from afar to lay claim to the honour.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the King | a proclamation |  | King's whole kingdom |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proclamation=Product |
| 2 | **come** | past | ladies |  |  | afar |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from afar=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lay** | infinitive | ladies *not said here* | claim |  |  |  | to the honour | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Result |

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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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