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title: He was married to a wife whom he dearly loved, and had two most prom… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was married to a wife whom he dearly loved, and had two most promising children—a son called Asmund, and a daughter who was named Signy. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 24

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He was married to a wife whom he dearly loved, and had two most promising children—a son called Asmund, and a daughter who was named Signy.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** marry, love, have, promise, call, name · **To what, where:** king, wife, two promising children, son, daughter · **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 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg3282:30:24
# text = He was married to a wife whom he dearly loved, and had two most promising children—a son called Asmund, and a daughter who was named Signy.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	dearly	dearly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	Asmund	Asmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
30	Signy	Signy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past · passive |  | king |  |  |  | to a wife | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to wife=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **love** | past | king | a wife |  |  |  | dearly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | past |  | two promising children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **call** | participle |  | a son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **name** | past · passive |  | a daughter |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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