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title: Once upon a time a great king of the East, named Saman-lalposh,[2] h… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Once upon a time a great king of the East, named Saman-lalposh,[2] had three brave and clever sons—Tahmasp, Qamas, and Almas-ruh-baksh. Who acts: Almas. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 29

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Once upon a time a great king of the East, named Saman-lalposh,\[2\] had three brave and clever sons—Tahmasp, Qamas, and Almas-ruh-baksh.

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**Who acts:** Almas · **What happens:** name, have, baksh · **To what, where:** great king, three brave sons

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Almas), 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:pg3282:1:29
# text = Once upon a time a great king of the East, named Saman-lalposh,[2] had three brave and clever sons—Tahmasp, Qamas, and Almas-ruh-baksh.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	Saman	Saman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	lalposh	lalposh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
22	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Tahmasp	Tahmasp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Qamas	Qamas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	Almas	Almas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	ruh	ruh	INTJ	UH	_	36	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	baksh	baksh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | participle · passive |  | a great king of the East |  |  | time | once *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past |  | three brave sons |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 3 | **baksh** |  | Almas |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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