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title: When he got there he gave the messengers who brought her a letter of… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he got there he gave the messengers who brought her a letter of thanks and a handsome present for their master and rewards for themselves; and then without delay he took the poor woman and her tiny baby-boy up on to his camel and rode off to a wild desert. Who acts: king, messengers. A sentence
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 48

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When he got there he gave the messengers who brought her a letter of thanks and a handsome present for their master and rewards for themselves; and then without delay he took the poor woman and her tiny baby-boy up on to his camel and rode off to a wild desert.

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**Who acts:** king, messengers · **What happens:** get, give, bring, take up, ride off, letter · **To what, where:** messengers, letter, messenger, poor woman, camel, wild desert

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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 (king, messengers), 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:pg3282:33:48
# text = When he got there he gave the messengers who brought her a letter of thanks and a handsome present for their master and rewards for themselves; and then without delay he took the poor woman and her tiny baby-boy up on to his camel and rode off to a wild desert.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	rewards	reward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
30	without	without	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
39	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
40	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
43	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
50	off	off	ADP	RP	_	49	compound:prt	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | king |  |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **give** | past | king | the messengers |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | past | the messengers | a letter of thanks and a handsome present | messenger |  |  | for thanks's master and rewards for rewards | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination letter=Theme |
| 4 | **take up** | past | king | the poor woman and messenger's tiny baby boy |  | king's camel | then | without delay | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme on camel=Destination |
| 5 | **ride off** | past | king *not said here* |  |  | a wild desert |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to desert=Trajectory |
| 6 | **letter** |  |  | thanks and a handsome present |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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