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title: Then he thanked the merchants, gave them leave to trade in his count… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he thanked the merchants, gave them leave to trade in his country without paying any duties, and dismissed them. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 62

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Then he thanked the merchants, gave them leave to trade in his country without paying any duties, and dismissed them.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** thank, give, leave, trade, pay, dismiss · **To what, where:** merchants, country, duties

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg2435:4:62
# text = Then he thanked the merchants, gave them leave to trade in his country without paying any duties, and dismissed them.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	trade	trade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | king | the merchants |  |  | then |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchant=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | king *not said here* |  | merchants *= merchant* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **trade** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  | king's country |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pay** | gerund | king *not said here* | any duties |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Asset |
| 6 | **dismiss** | past | king *not said here* | duties *= duty* |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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