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title: Father Peter filled his pockets with gold for the wedding dowry, and… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Father Peter filled his pockets with gold for the wedding dowry, and agreed with him that when all was settled he should secretly send him word that Peter might send off the waggon load of house plenishings with which the rich bridegroom was to make such a stir in the little town where the bride liv
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 87

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Father Peter filled his pockets with gold for the wedding dowry, and agreed with him that when all was settled he should secretly send him word that Peter might send off the waggon load of house plenishings with which the rich bridegroom was to make such a stir in the little town where the bride lived.

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**Who acts:** Father Peter, Peter, word, waggon load, bride · **What happens:** fill, agree, settle, send, send off, make · **To what, where:** pockets, all, word, Friedlin, waggon load, stir

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father Peter, Peter, word, waggon load), 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:pg2435:17:87
# text = Father Peter filled his pockets with gold for the wedding dowry, and agreed with him that when all was settled he should secretly send him word that Peter might send off the waggon load of house plenishings with which the rich bridegroom was to make such a stir in the little town where the bride lived.
1	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dowry	dowry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	off	off	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	waggon	waggon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	plenishings	plenishing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nmod	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	49	det:predet	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	stir	stir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
54	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	57	advmod	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
57	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past | Father Peter | Peter's pockets |  |  |  | with gold; for the wedding dowry | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with gold=Instrument |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past |  |  |  |  |  | with Peter | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **settle** | past · passive |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
| 4 | **send** *not said to happen* | should | Peter | word | Friedlin |  |  | secretly *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination word=Theme |
| 5 | **send off** | might | word | the waggon load of house plenishings with the waggon load of house plenishings with the waggon load |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | the waggon load of house plenishings with the waggon load of house plenishings with the waggon load *not said here* | such stir |  | the little town |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stir=Product |
| 7 | **live** | past | the bride |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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