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title: In a few days, therefore, the merchant came back, and received from… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In a few days, therefore, the merchant came back, and received from the princess a return present in the shape of a camel-load or rich silks, besides a present of money for himself. Who acts: merchant. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1,
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 19

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In a few days, therefore, the merchant came back, and received from the princess a return present in the shape of a camel-load or rich silks, besides a present of money for himself.

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**Who acts:** merchant · **What happens:** come back, receive

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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:pg3282:34:19
# text = In a few days, therefore, the merchant came back, and received from the princess a return present in the shape of a camel-load or rich silks, besides a present of money for himself.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	silks	silk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past | the merchant |  |  |  | day | therefore *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **receive** | past | the merchant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from the princess  a return present in the shape of a camel load or rich silks; besides a present of money for Wali | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from princess=Source |

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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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