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title: He joined their talk and soon learned from them that the king had on… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He joined their talk and soon learned from them that the king had only one daughter who had such a hatred to men that she would never suffer one to enter her presence. Who acts: boy, king, one daughter, body. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, with it
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 46

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He joined their talk and soon learned from them that the king had only one daughter who had such a hatred to men that she would never suffer one to enter her presence.

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**Who acts:** boy, king, one daughter, body, maids · **What happens:** join, learn, have, not suffer, enter, talk · **To what, where:** talk, one daughter, hatred, one, presence

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, king, one daughter, body), 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:pg3282:18:46
# text = He joined their talk and soon learned from them that the king had only one daughter who had such a hatred to men that she would never suffer one to enter her presence.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	21	det:predet	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hatred	hatred	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | past | boy | maids's talk |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Patient |
| 2 | **learn** | past | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from maids *= maid*; soon *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from they=Source |
| 3 | **have** | past | the king | one daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | past | one daughter | such hatred |  |  |  | to men | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatred=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **suffer** | would | body | one |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 6 | **enter** | to-infinitive | body *not said here* | body's presence |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme presence=Destination |
| 7 | **talk** |  | maids *= maid* |  |  |  |  |  | nom talk «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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