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title: The king followed the youth’s directions, and, marking the foals, se… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king followed the youth’s directions, and, marking the foals, sent them back to Turkey, and there was no war that year. Who acts: king, war. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 97

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The king followed the youth’s directions, and, marking the foals, sent them back to Turkey, and there was no war that year.

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**Who acts:** king, war · **What happens:** follow, mark, send back, be · **To what, where:** directions, foals, Turkey

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, war), 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:pg2435:7:97
# text = The king followed the youth’s directions, and, marking the foals, sent them back to Turkey, and there was no war that year.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	followed	follow	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	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	marking	mark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	foals	foal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
15	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	det	_	_
27	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | the king | the youth's directions |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme |
| 2 | **mark** | gerund |  | the foals |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foal=Theme |
| 3 | **send back** | past |  | foals *= foal* | Turkey |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to turkey=Destination |
| 4 | **be** | past | no war  that year |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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