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title: Even now he had come out of his palace, which was large and splendid… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Even now he had come out of his palace, which was large and splendid enough for fifty kings, weary and cross because he could find nothing new to amuse him. Who acts: Badi, palace. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 44

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Even now he had come out of his palace, which was large and splendid enough for fifty kings, weary and cross because he could find nothing new to amuse him.

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**Who acts:** Badi, palace · **What happens:** come out, be, find, amuse · **To what, where:** palace, nothing, Badi

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badi, palace), 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:pg7277:9:44
# text = Even now he had come out of his palace, which was large and splendid enough for fifty kings, weary and cross because he could find nothing new to amuse him.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	27	obj	_	_
29	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	amuse	amuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past · perfect | Badi | Badi's palace |  |  | now |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient palace=Result |
| 2 | **is** | past | Badi's palace |  |  |  |  | for fifty kings; large *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Badi's palace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | Badi's palace *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | could | Badi | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 6 | **amuse** | to-infinitive | Badi *not said here* | Badi |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

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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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