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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 29

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Every evening the king and his nobles were served on golden plates and from golden cups; and the smaller people on silver plates and from silver cups; and each evening each guest was requested to keep the places and cups that they had used as a remembrance of the occasion.

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**What happens:** serve, be, keep, use, remember · **To what, where:** king, golden plates, guest, places, occasion

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg3282:35:29
# text = Every evening the king and his nobles were served on golden plates and from golden cups; and the smaller people on silver plates and from silver cups; and each evening each guest was requested to keep the places and cups that they had used as a remembrance of the occasion.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
31	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	requested	request	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl:relcl	_	_
47	as	as	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | past · passive |  | the king and king's nobles |  | golden plates and golden cups | evening | the smaller people on silver plates and silver cups *obl* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | past · passive |  | each guest |  |  | evening | request *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | the places and cups |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | past · perfect · passive |  | the places and cups |  |  |  | as a remembrance of the occasion | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as remembrance=Attribute |
| 5 | **remember** |  |  | the occasion |  |  |  |  | nom remembrance «cognition 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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