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title: Here a great encampment was made, and the merchant was sent on to te… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Here a great encampment was made, and the merchant was sent on to tell Wali Dâd that the King and Princess of Khaistan had arrived and were seeking an interview. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, with its dependency tre
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 81

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Here a great encampment was made, and the merchant was sent on to tell Wali Dâd that the King and Princess of Khaistan had arrived and were seeking an interview.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** make, send on, tell, arrive, seek · **To what, where:** great encampment, merchant, Wali, interview · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg3282:34:81
# text = Here a great encampment was made, and the merchant was sent on to tell Wali Dâd that the King and Princess of Khaistan had arrived and were seeking an interview.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	encampment	encampment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
16	Wali	Wali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Khaistan	Khaistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	interview	interview	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | a great encampment |  | here |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **send on** | past · passive |  | the merchant |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  | Wali |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wali=Recipient |
| 4 | **arrive** | past · perfect | the King and Princess of Khaistan |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **seek** | past · progressive | the King and Princess of Khaistan *not said here* | a interview |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interview=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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