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title: Then Subida took up a purse containing two hundred gold pieces, and… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Subida took up a purse containing two hundred gold pieces, and said: “Your husband served us long and faithfully. Who acts: Subida, purse, husband. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 102

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Then Subida took up a purse containing two hundred gold pieces, and said: “Your husband served us long and faithfully.

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**Who acts:** Subida, purse, husband · **What happens:** take up, contain, say, serve · **To what, where:** purse, hundred gold pieces, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Subida, purse, husband), 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:pg2435:28:102
# text = Then Subida took up a purse containing two hundred gold pieces, and said: “Your husband served us long and faithfully.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Subida	Subida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take up** | past | Subida | a purse |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme |
| 2 | **contain** | gerund | a purse *not said here* | hundred gold pieces |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot piece=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Subida *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **serve** *in a quote* | past | Your husband | us |  |  |  | long *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Attribute |

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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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