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title: He exchanged his royal dress for another, and next morning, just as… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He exchanged his royal dress for another, and next morning, just as the sun looked forth from its eastern oratory, he went again into the city. Who acts: prince, sun. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 26

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He exchanged his royal dress for another, and next morning, just as the sun looked forth from its eastern oratory, he went again into the city.

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**Who acts:** prince, sun · **What happens:** exchange, look, go · **To what, where:** royal dress, city

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, sun), 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:pg3282:2:26
# text = He exchanged his royal dress for another, and next morning, just as the sun looked forth from its eastern oratory, he went again into the city.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	exchanged	exchange	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	oratory	oratory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exchange** | past | prince | prince's royal dress |  |  | morning | for another | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme for another=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  | from dress's eastern oratory; forth *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from oratory=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | prince |  |  | the city | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into city=Initial\_Location |

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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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