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title: One day as he sat by her side feeling very happy, he received news t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day as he sat by her side feeling very happy, he received news that his father was lying at the point of death, and desired to see him before his end. Who acts: King, father. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 2

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One day as he sat by her side feeling very happy, he received news that his father was lying at the point of death, and desired to see him before his end.

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**Who acts:** King, father · **What happens:** sit, feel, receive, lie, desire, see · **To what, where:** news, point, King, death

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, father), 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:pg7277:43:2
# text = One day as he sat by her side feeling very happy, he received news that his father was lying at the point of death, and desired to see him before his end.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	acl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	before	before	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | King |  |  |  | day | by Princess's side | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location |
| 2 | **feel** | gerund | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **receive** | past | King | news |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** | past · progressive | King's father | news *not said here* |  | the point of death |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location news=Theme |
| 5 | **desire** | participle | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | King |  |  | before King's end |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 7 | **point** |  |  | death |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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