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title: Now this King had given orders that, in the event of Jack’s coming t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 63

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Now this King had given orders that, in the event of Jack’s coming the guards were to present arms, the people to cheer, and he was to be conducted in triumph to the royal palace.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** give, come, be, present, cheer, conduct · **To what, where:** guards, arms, King, triumph

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. 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:pg7277:48:63
# text = Now this King had given orders that, in the event of Jack’s coming the guards were to present arms, the people to cheer, and he was to be conducted in triumph to the royal palace.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
15	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	cheer	cheer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · perfect | this King |  |  |  | now |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | gerund |  | the guards |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **present** | to-infinitive |  | arms and the people |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 5 | **cheer** | to-infinitive |  | arms and the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **conduct** | past · passive |  | King |  | triumph |  | to the royal palace | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in triumph=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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