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title: The King’s joy was great when he embraced his youngest son, for he h… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King’s joy was great when he embraced his youngest son, for he had long since despaired of his return. Who acts: joy, emperor, King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 98

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The King’s joy was great when he embraced his youngest son, for he had long since despaired of his return.

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**Who acts:** joy, emperor, King · **What happens:** be, embrace, have, despair, joy, return · **To what, where:** youngest son

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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 (joy, emperor, 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:pg7277:52:98
# text = The King’s joy was great when he embraced his youngest son, for he had long since despaired of his return.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
18	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	despaired	despair	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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's joy |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **embrace** | past | emperor | emperor's youngest son |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | emperor |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **despair** | participle | emperor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of emperor's return | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **joy** |  | the King |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **return** |  | emperor |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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