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title: And many years after a poor beggar knocked at the palace gates and a… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And many years after a poor beggar knocked at the palace gates and asked for money, for the sake of days gone by—and this was Geirald. Who acts: this. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 60

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And many years after a poor beggar knocked at the palace gates and asked for money, for the sake of days gone by—and this was Geirald.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** knock, ask, go by, be · **To what, where:** days, Geirald

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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:pg3282:13:60
# text = And many years after a poor beggar knocked at the palace gates and asked for money, for the sake of days gone by—and this was Geirald.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | participle |  |  |  |  | year | at the palace gates | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at gate=Patient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  |  |  | for money; for the sake of days | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go by** | participle |  | days *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | this | Geirald |  |  |  |  | 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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