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title: With the golden hen under his arm he presented himself before the ki… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 75

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With the golden hen under his arm he presented himself before the king, and told his adventures, and how he was going to have for a wife a princess so wonderful and unlike all other princesses, that the star on her forehead could turn night into day.

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**Who acts:** boy, star · **What happens:** present, tell, go, have, turn, adventure · **To what, where:** boy, adventures, princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, star), 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:pg3282:23:75
# text = With the golden hen under his arm he presented himself before the king, and told his adventures, and how he was going to have for a wife a princess so wonderful and unlike all other princesses, that the star on her forehead could turn night into day.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
37	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
48	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl:unmarked	_	_
49	into	into	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** | past | boy | boy |  |  | before the king | with the golden hen under boy's arm | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient with hen=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  | boy's adventures |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent adventure=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | past · progressive | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | a princess |  |  |  | for a wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |
| 5 | **turn** | could | the star on princess's forehead |  |  |  | day; night |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **adventure** |  | boy |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: 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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