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title: The King came himself to open the door, and there he found both happ… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King came himself to open the door, and there he found both happy and well, and he rejoiced with them that now all trouble was over. Who acts: King, trouble. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 35

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The King came himself to open the door, and there he found both happy and well, and he rejoiced with them that now all trouble was over.

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**Who acts:** King, trouble · **What happens:** come, open, find, rejoice, be · **To what, where:** King, door

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, trouble), 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:pg7277:46:35
# text = The King came himself to open the door, and there he found both happy and well, and he rejoiced with them that now all trouble was over.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	both	both	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	that	that	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	over	over	ADV	RB	_	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the King | King |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | King |  |  | there |  | happy *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rejoice** | past | King |  |  |  | now | with eyes *= eye* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past | all trouble |  |  |  |  | over *property* | 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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