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title: And with that King John sent away the shepherd with a right royal pr… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And with that King John sent away the shepherd with a right royal present, besides his pension. Who acts: right royal present, shepherd. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 70

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And with that King John sent away the shepherd with a right royal present, besides his pension.

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**Who acts:** right royal present, shepherd · **What happens:** send away, beside, pension · **To what, where:** shepherd, pension

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (right royal present, shepherd), 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:pg14241:28:70
# text = And with that King John sent away the shepherd with a right royal present, besides his pension.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	besides	beside	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	pension	pension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send away** | past |  | the shepherd |  |  |  | with that; with a right royal present; away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Theme |
| 2 | **beside** | present | a right royal present *not said here* | shepherd's pension |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pension** |  | shepherd |  |  |  |  |  | nom pension «possession 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:** «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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