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title: The brothers Simon were sent again to the Island of Busan with a let… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The brothers Simon were sent again to the Island of Busan with a letter to the king from his daughter to invite him to their wedding. Who acts: rejoicings. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 130

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The brothers Simon were sent again to the Island of Busan with a letter to the king from his daughter to invite him to their wedding.

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**Who acts:** rejoicings · **What happens:** send, invite, wed · **To what, where:** brothers, Island, brother

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rejoicings), 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:pg2435:5:130
# text = The brothers Simon were sent again to the Island of Busan with a letter to the king from his daughter to invite him to their wedding.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Busan	Busan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	invite	invite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  | the brothers | the Island of Busan |  | again | with a letter to the king from king's daughter | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to island=Destination |
| 2 | **invite** | to-infinitive |  |  | brother |  |  | to rejoicings's wedding | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **wed** |  | rejoicings *= rejoicing* |  |  |  |  |  | nom wedding «event 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:** «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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