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title: One day he sent his eldest son, Rosald, a brave and honest youth, to… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day he sent his eldest son, Rosald, a brave and honest youth, to the neighbouring town to do some business, and here Rosald met a young man named Geirald, with whom he made friends. Who acts: knight, Rosald. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, with
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 72

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One day he sent his eldest son, Rosald, a brave and honest youth, to the neighbouring town to do some business, and here Rosald met a young man named Geirald, with whom he made friends.

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**Who acts:** knight, Rosald · **What happens:** send, neighbour, do, meet, name, make · **To what, where:** eldest son, business, young man, friends

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, Rosald), 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:pg3282:12:72
# text = One day he sent his eldest son, Rosald, a brave and honest youth, to the neighbouring town to do some business, and here Rosald met a young man named Geirald, with whom he made friends.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
28	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | knight | knight's eldest son and a brave youth |  |  | day |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
| 2 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | knight *not said here* | some business |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Eventuality |
| 4 | **meet** | past | Rosald | a young man |  | here |  |  | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme with whom=Instrument |
| 5 | **name** | participle |  | a young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** | past | knight | friends |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product |

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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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