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title: In return for the diamond, King Sinaubar showered gifts of much grea… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In return for the diamond, King Sinaubar showered gifts of much greater value, for he remembered that it was the last possession of the prince. Who acts: King, value. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 4

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In return for the diamond, King Sinaubar showered gifts of much greater value, for he remembered that it was the last possession of the prince.

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**Who acts:** King, value · **What happens:** shower, remember, be, gift · **To what, where:** gifts, return, last possession, greater value · **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 (King, value), 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:pg3282:5:4
# text = In return for the diamond, King Sinaubar showered gifts of much greater value, for he remembered that it was the last possession of the prince.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Sinaubar	Sinaubar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	showered	shower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shower** | past | King | gifts of greater value |  | return for the diamond |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme in return=Destination |
| 2 | **remember** | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | value | the last possession |  |  |  | of the prince | tree rules |
| 4 | **gift** |  |  | greater value |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession 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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