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title: And the hale o’ the prisoners were overjoyed at their deliverance, w… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the hale o’ the prisoners were overjoyed at their deliverance, which they all acknowledged to be owing to the prudent young man. Who acts: prisoners. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 64

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And the hale o’ the prisoners were overjoyed at their deliverance, which they all acknowledged to be owing to the prudent young man.

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**Who acts:** prisoners · **What happens:** overjoy, acknowledge, owe, deliver · **To what, where:** hale o, deliverance, prudent young man

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoners), 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:pg503:56:64
# text = And the hale o’ the prisoners were overjoyed at their deliverance, which they all acknowledged to be owing to the prudent young man.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	hale	hale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
20	owing	owe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	prudent	prudent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overjoy** | past · passive |  | the hale o |  | prisoners's deliverance |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **acknowledge** | past | prisoners *= prisoner* | prisoners's deliverance |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
| 3 | **owe** | to-infinitive · progressive | prisoners *= prisoner* *not said here* |  | the prudent young man |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to man=Goal |
| 4 | **deliver** |  | prisoners *= prisoner* |  |  |  |  |  | nom deliverance «act 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 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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