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title: It was the custom of that city that the officer for the day of the p… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the custom of that city that the officer for the day of the palace guards should receive all his food direct from the king’s kitchen. Who acts: thought, officer. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, with its dependency tree an
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 107

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It was the custom of that city that the officer for the day of the palace guards should receive all his food direct from the king’s kitchen.

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**Who acts:** thought, officer · **What happens:** be, receive · **To what, where:** custom, food

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, officer), 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:pg3282:33:107
# text = It was the custom of that city that the officer for the day of the palace guards should receive all his food direct from the king’s kitchen.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | thought | the custom |  |  |  | of that city | tree rules |
| 2 | **receive** | should | the officer for the day of the palace guards | Nur's food |  |  |  | direct *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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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