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title: Just as the princess had foretold, in three days the king set out fo… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Just as the princess had foretold, in three days the king set out for the war with a large following, and among them was the young prince, who had presented himself at court as a young noble in search of adventures. Who acts: wars. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 69

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Just as the princess had foretold, in three days the king set out for the war with a large following, and among them was the young prince, who had presented himself at court as a young noble in search of adventures.

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**Who acts:** wars · **What happens:** foretell, set out, follow, be, present, search · **To what, where:** princess, king, large young prince, court, adventures

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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 (wars), 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:pg3282:18:69
# text = Just as the princess had foretold, in three days the king set out for the war with a large following, and among them was the young prince, who had presented himself at court as a young noble in search of adventures.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	foretold	foretell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
20	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
21	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	among	among	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
34	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obj	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	advcl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **foretell** | past · perfect · passive |  | the princess |  |  | day |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme king=Eventuality |
| 2 | **set out** | participle |  | the king *not said here* |  |  |  | for the war | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | wars *= war* |  |  |  |  | with a large young prince | tree rules |
| 5 | **present** | past · perfect · passive |  | a large young prince |  | court |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **search** |  |  | adventures |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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