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title: As he approached the borders of his father’s country word of his com… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As he approached the borders of his father’s country word of his coming went before him, and all the city came forth to give him welcome. Who acts: Prince, borders, city, father. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 49

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As he approached the borders of his father’s country word of his coming went before him, and all the city came forth to give him welcome.

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**Who acts:** Prince, borders, city, father · **What happens:** approach, come, go, give, word · **To what, where:** country word, Prince

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, borders, city, father), 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:pg3282:6:49
# text = As he approached the borders of his father’s country word of his coming went before him, and all the city came forth to give him welcome.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | Prince | Prince's father's country word *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | the borders of Prince's father's country word |  |  |  | before Prince |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location |
| 4 | **come** | past | all city |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | all city *not said here* |  | Prince |  |  | welcome *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **word** |  | Prince's father |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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