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title: These drums were put there so that the suitors of the princess might… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: These drums were put there so that the suitors of the princess might announce their arrival by beating on them, after which some one would come and take them to the king’s presence. Who acts: suitors, one, drums. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, with
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 95

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These drums were put there so that the suitors of the princess might announce their arrival by beating on them, after which some one would come and take them to the king’s presence.

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**Who acts:** suitors, one, drums · **What happens:** put, announce, beat, come, take, arrive · **To what, where:** drums, arrival, presence

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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 (suitors, one, drums), 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:pg3282:1:95
# text = These drums were put there so that the suitors of the princess might announce their arrival by beating on them, after which some one would come and take them to the king’s presence.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	suitors	suitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	announce	announce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past · passive |  | this drums |  | there |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 2 | **announce** *speech: other* | might | the suitors of the princess | drums's arrival |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrival=Theme |
| 3 | **beat** | gerund | the suitors of the princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on drums *= drum* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Location |
| 4 | **come** | would | some one |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | infinitive | some one *not said here* | drums *= drum* |  | the king's presence |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to presence=Destination |
| 6 | **arrive** |  | drums *= drum* |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: 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 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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