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title: The Ant-King, with his thousands and thousands of followers, had com… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ant-King, with his thousands and thousands of followers, had come during the night, and the grateful creatures had industriously gathered all the millet together and put it in the sacks. Who acts: Ant. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake, with its dependency tree
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# The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 53

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The Ant-King, with his thousands and thousands of followers, had come during the night, and the grateful creatures had industriously gathered all the millet together and put it in the sacks.

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**Who acts:** Ant · **What happens:** come, gather, put · **To what, where:** grateful creatures, millet, sacks

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ant), 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:pg7277:50:53
# text = The Ant-King, with his thousands and thousands of followers, had come during the night, and the grateful creatures had industriously gathered all the millet together and put it in the sacks.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ant	Ant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	during	during	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	industriously	industriously	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	millet	millet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	together	together	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect | the Ant and youth's thousands and thousands of followers |  |  |  | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **gather** | past · perfect · passive |  | the grateful creatures |  |  |  | industriously, together *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary millet=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | the Ant and youth's thousands and thousands of followers *not said here* | millet |  | the sacks |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sack=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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