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title: The King was pleased with the advice, and desired twelve spinning-wh… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King was pleased with the advice, and desired twelve spinning-wheels to be placed in his ante-chamber. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 35

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The King was pleased with the advice, and desired twelve spinning-wheels to be placed in his ante-chamber.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** be, desire, spin, place · **To what, where:** twelve spinning wheels, ante chamber

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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), 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:pg7277:43:35
# text = The King was pleased with the advice, and desired twelve spinning-wheels to be placed in his ante-chamber.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	ante	ante	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the King |  |  |  |  | with the advice; pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **desire** | past | the King *not said here* | twelve spinning wheels |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wheel=Theme |
| 3 | **spin** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **place** | to-infinitive · passive | the King *not said here* |  |  | King's ante chamber |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in chamber=Destination |

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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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