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title: So he sent for them all, and, after speaking to them kindly, he added: — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he sent for them all, and, after speaking to them kindly, he added: Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 3

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So he sent for them all, and, after speaking to them kindly, he added:

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** send, speak, add · **To what, where:** sons · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg503:23:3
# text = So he sent for them all, and, after speaking to them kindly, he added:
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | king |  |  |  |  | for sons *= son* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | king *not said here* |  | sons *= son* |  |  | kindly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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