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title: He gave two of the castles to the eldest sisters, and kept the other… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He gave two of the castles to the eldest sisters, and kept the other for himself and the youngest, whom he married, and there they are living still. Who acts: Paul, castles. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 10

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He gave two of the castles to the eldest sisters, and kept the other for himself and the youngest, whom he married, and there they are living still.

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**Who acts:** Paul, castles · **What happens:** give, keep, marry, live · **To what, where:** two castles, eldest sisters, other

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul, castles), 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:pg2435:32:10
# text = He gave two of the castles to the eldest sisters, and kept the other for himself and the youngest, whom he married, and there they are living still.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
31	still	still	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Paul | the two castles | the eldest sisters |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent castle=Theme to sister=Recipient |
| 2 | **keep** | past | Paul *not said here* | the other |  |  |  | for Paul | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme |
| 3 | **marry** | past | Paul |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |
| 4 | **live** | present · progressive | castles *= castle* |  |  | there | still |  | 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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