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title: When he had been married about a year, some of his subjects, inhabit… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had been married about a year, some of his subjects, inhabiting a distant group of islands, revolted against his laws, and it became needful for him to leave his wife and go in person to settle their disputes. Who acts: some, group, king, islands. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andr
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 85

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When he had been married about a year, some of his subjects, inhabiting a distant group of islands, revolted against his laws, and it became needful for him to leave his wife and go in person to settle their disputes.

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**Who acts:** some, group, king, islands · **What happens:** marry, inhabit, revolt, become, leave, go · **To what, where:** king, distant group, wife, disputes

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some, group, king, islands), 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:pg3282:17:85
# text = When he had been married about a year, some of his subjects, inhabiting a distant group of islands, revolted against his laws, and it became needful for him to leave his wife and go in person to settle their disputes.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	inhabiting	inhabit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	revolted	revolt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
23	against	against	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	needful	needful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	_
43	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	disputes	dispute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past · perfect · passive |  | king |  |  | year |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **inhabit** | gerund | some | a distant group of islands |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **revolt** | participle |  | a distant group of islands *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **become** | past | group |  |  |  |  | needful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **leave** | to-infinitive | king | king's wife |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in person | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in person=Location |
| 7 | **settle** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | islands's disputes |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dispute=Location |
| 8 | **dispute** |  | islands *= island* |  |  |  |  |  | nom dispute «communication 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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