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title: The news of his son’s adventures had already reached his father’s Co… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The news of his son’s adventures had already reached his father’s Court, and everyone was more than astonished at the success of the once despised Prince. Who acts: success, son. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 90

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The news of his son’s adventures had already reached his father’s Court, and everyone was more than astonished at the success of the once despised Prince.

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**Who acts:** success, son · **What happens:** reach, astonish, despise, adventure · **To what, where:** news, everyone, success, Prince

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (success, son), 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:pg7277:52:90
# text = The news of his son’s adventures had already reached his father’s Court, and everyone was more than astonished at the success of the once despised Prince.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	already	already	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	21	advmod	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	astonished	astonish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	once	once	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
28	despised	despise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past · perfect · passive |  | the news of emperor's son's adventures |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary court=Theme |
| 2 | **astonish** | past · passive |  | everyone |  | the success |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **despise** | past | the success *not said here* | Prince |  |  |  | of the once | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus |
| 4 | **adventure** |  | emperor's son |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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