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title: After a night and a day the doves alighted outside the gate of King… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After a night and a day the doves alighted outside the gate of King Charming’s kingdom. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 88

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After a night and a day the doves alighted outside the gate of King Charming’s kingdom.

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**What happens:** alight · **To what, where:** doves

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7277:4:88
# text = After a night and a day the doves alighted outside the gate of King Charming’s kingdom.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	alighted	alight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
17	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **alight** | participle |  | the doves *not said here* |  |  |  | outside the gate of King's kingdom | tree rules |

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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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