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title: My eldest son heard from travellers that in Turkistan, on the Chines… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: My eldest son heard from travellers that in Turkistan, on the Chinese frontier, there is a king named Quimus, the son of Timus, and that he has an only child, a daughter named Mihr-afruz,[5] who, under all the azure heaven, is unrivalled for beauty. Who acts: King, travellers. A sentence of «The Bro
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 59

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My eldest son heard from travellers that in Turkistan, on the Chinese frontier, there is a king named Quimus, the son of Timus, and that he has an only child, a daughter named Mihr-afruz,\[5\] who, under all the azure heaven, is unrivalled for beauty.

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**Who acts:** King, travellers · **What happens:** hear, name, have, be · **To what, where:** eldest son, travellers, king, only child, daughter, Turkistan

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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 (King, travellers), 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:pg3282:1:59
# text = My eldest son heard from travellers that in Turkistan, on the Chinese frontier, there is a king named Quimus, the son of Timus, and that he has an only child, a daughter named Mihr-afruz,[5] who, under all the azure heaven, is unrivalled for beauty.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Turkistan	Turkistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	frontier	frontier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl:relcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
20	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	Quimus	Quimus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Timus	Timus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
38	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
39	Mihr	Mihr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	afruz	afruz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	44	punct	_	_
46	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
48	under	under	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	52	det:predet	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	azure	azure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
54	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
55	unrivalled	unrivalled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
56	for	for	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | participle |  | My eldest son *not said here* |  | travellers |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from traveller=Source |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | King | a only child and a daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 4 | **name** | participle |  | a daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | travellers |  |  | Turkistan |  | for beauty; unrivalled *property* | 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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