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title: One of the king's knights who had escorted the new queen, cried out… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the king's knights who had escorted the new queen, cried out in admiration: “Surely this northern Princess is the loveliest of her kind.” Who acts: knights, One. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 9

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One of the king's knights who had escorted the new queen, cried out in admiration: “Surely this northern Princess is the loveliest of her kind.”

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**Who acts:** knights, One · **What happens:** escort, cry out, be · **To what, where:** new queen, admiration · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights, One), 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:pg7439:39:9
# text = One of the king's knights who had escorted the new queen, cried out in admiration: “Surely this northern Princess is the loveliest of her kind.”
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	escorted	escort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	cried	cry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escort** | past · perfect | the king's knights | the new queen |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | participle |  | the new queen *not said here* |  | admiration |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in admiration=Location |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | One of the king's knights |  |  |  |  | of queen's kind; lovely *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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