--- title: Then they invited the King and Queen of Starza-Longa to their Court,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then they invited the King and Queen of Starza-Longa to their Court, and had a great wedding feast, and proved once more that there is no better seasoning for the joys of true love than a few pangs of grief. Who acts: things. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:25:80 # text = Then they invited the King and Queen of Starza-Longa to their Court, and had a great wedding feast, and proved once more that there is no better seasoning for the joys of true love than a few pangs of grief. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 invited invite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Starza Starza PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Longa Longa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 Court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 proved prove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 25 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 26 advmod _ _ 26 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 29 expl _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 30 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 32 det _ _ 31 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 amod _ _ 32 seasoning seasoning NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 joys joy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 than than ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 pangs pang NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **invite** | past | things *= thing* | | the King and Queen of Starza and Longa | | then | to things's Court | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | | 2 | **have** | past | things *= thing* *not said here* | a great wedding feast | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient | | 3 | **prove** | past | | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | | no better seasoning | | | | for the joys of true love than a few pangs of grief | tree rules | | 5 | **joy** | | | true love than a few pangs of grief | | | | | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/79/) - next →: [The Biter Bit, part 1, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/26/1/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Snake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/)