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title: He told the whole story of the rose and the cypress, and then, laden… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He told the whole story of the rose and the cypress, and then, laden with gifts which the Simurgh had gathered from cities far and near, he set his face for the Castle of Clashing Swords. Who acts: prince. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its de
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 137

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He told the whole story of the rose and the cypress, and then, laden with gifts which the Simurgh had gathered from cities far and near, he set his face for the Castle of Clashing Swords.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** tell, laden, gather, set, clash · **To what, where:** whole story, gifts, cities, face · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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:pg3282:5:137
# text = He told the whole story of the rose and the cypress, and then, laden with gifts which the Simurgh had gathered from cities far and near, he set his face for the Castle of Clashing Swords.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cypress	cypress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	laden	laden	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Simurgh	Simurgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	near	near	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	Clashing	clash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	amod	_	_
39	Swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | prince | the whole story of the rose and the cypress |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 2 | **laden** | infinitive | prince *not said here* |  |  |  | then | with gifts | tree rules |
| 3 | **gather** | past · perfect · passive |  | gifts |  | cities |  | far *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from city=Source |
| 4 | **set** | past | prince | prince's face |  |  |  | for the Castle of Clashing Swords | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent face=Patient for castle=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **clash** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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