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title: And the King married his daughter to the young man that had delivere… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the King married his daughter to the young man that had delivered her, and gave a noble’s daughter to ilk ane o’ the other young men; and so they a’ lived happily a’ the rest o’ their days. Who acts: King, prisoners. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin, with its depe
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 66

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And the King married his daughter to the young man that had delivered her, and gave a noble’s daughter to ilk ane o’ the other young men; and so they a’ lived happily a’ the rest o’ their days.

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**Who acts:** King, prisoners · **What happens:** marry, deliver, give, live · **To what, where:** daughter, young man, other young men, rest

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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 (King, 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:pg503:56:66
# text = And the King married his daughter to the young man that had delivered her, and gave a noble’s daughter to ilk ane o’ the other young men; and so they a’ lived happily a’ the rest o’ their days.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	noble	noble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	iobj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	ilk	ilk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	ane	ane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	o	o	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
38	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
43	o	o	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	’	'	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past | the King | King's daughter |  |  |  | to the young man | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient to man=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **deliver** | past · perfect · passive |  | the young man |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary she=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | past | the King *not said here* | the other young men | a noble's daughter |  |  | to ilk ane | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient man=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | past | prisoners *= prisoner* | a rest |  |  | day | happily *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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