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title: Now this province was four or five days’ journey from the palace, an… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now this province was four or five days’ journey from the palace, and the governor of it was the most faithful servant the king had. Who acts: province, journey, king, four days. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, with its dependen
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 117

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Now this province was four or five days’ journey from the palace, and the governor of it was the most faithful servant the king had.

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**Who acts:** province, journey, king, four days · **What happens:** be, have, journey · **To what, where:** four, faithful servant, palace

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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 (province, journey, king, four days), 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:pg3282:33:117
# text = Now this province was four or five days’ journey from the palace, and the governor of it was the most faithful servant the king had.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
23	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this province | four |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | four days's journey from the palace and the governor of province | the faithful servant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | the king | the faithful servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient |
| 4 | **journey** |  | four days |  |  | the palace |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent from=place |

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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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