--- title: The King and Queen came out to meet him as she had said, leading wit… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King and Queen came out to meet him as she had said, leading with them a lovely fair-haired little girl, whose eyes shone like two clear stars. Who acts: King, Queen. 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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 (King, Queen), 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:pg7277:28:74 # text = The King and Queen came out to meet him as she had said, leading with them a lovely fair-haired little girl, whose eyes shone like two clear stars. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 out out ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 leading lead VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 19 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 20 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 haired haired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 shone shine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 31 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come out** | past | the King and Queen | | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the King and Queen *not said here* | Hyacinthia | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Queen | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **lead** | gerund | Queen *not said here* | a lovely fair haired little girl and a lovely fair haired little girl and a lovely fair haired little girl's eyes's eyes | | | | with King | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | | 5 | **shine** | participle | | a lovely fair haired little girl and a lovely fair haired little girl and eyes's eyes's eyes *not said here* | | | | like two clear stars | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/28/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/28/75/) - ↑ back to [The Biter Bit, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/28/)