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title: Other kings' sons went by here to go to that castle, but they never… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Other kings' sons went by here to go to that castle, but they never came back alive, and you are the only one that ever broke the spell. Who acts: sons, you. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 35

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Other kings' sons went by here to go to that castle, but they never came back alive, and you are the only one that ever broke the spell.

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**Who acts:** sons, you · **What happens:** go, not come back, be, break · **To what, where:** castle, only one

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, you), 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:pg14241:27:35
# text = Other kings' sons went by here to go to that castle, but they never came back alive, and you are the only one that ever broke the spell.
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
29	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Other kings's sons |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by here=Location |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | Other kings's sons *not said here* |  |  | that castle |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **not** **come back** | past | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | you | the only one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **break** | past |  | the only one |  |  | ever |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Patient spell=Result |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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