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title: In it was a daughter of Taram taq, still a child She sent a message… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In it was a daughter of Taram taq, still a child She sent a message to Prince Almas saying, “O king of the world! choose this slave to be your handmaid. Who acts: castle, child. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 56

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In it was a daughter of Taram taq, still a child She sent a message to Prince Almas saying, “O king of the world! choose this slave to be your handmaid.

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**Who acts:** castle, child · **What happens:** be, send, say, choose · **To what, where:** child, king, slave, handmaid · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle, child), 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:pg3282:4:56
# text = In it was a daughter of Taram taq, still a child She sent a message to Prince Almas saying, “O king of the world! choose this slave to be your handmaid.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Taram	Taram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	taq	taq	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	Almas	Almas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	24	case	_	_
24	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
29	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	handmaid	handmaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | castle |  |  |  |  | in a daughter; of Taram taq | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | past | child | a child |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to prince=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund | child *not said here* | king of the world |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **choose** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this slave |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | your handmaid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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