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title: The King had them both arrested at once and brought to trial, and th… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King had them both arrested at once and brought to trial, and they were condemned to death. Who acts: King, things. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 123

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The King had them both arrested at once and brought to trial, and they were condemned to death.

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**Who acts:** King, things · **What happens:** have, arrest, bring, condemn · **To what, where:** things, trial

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg540:1020`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:10:123
# text = The King had them both arrested at once and brought to trial, and they were condemned to death.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
6	arrested	arrest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	condemned	condemn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the King | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrest** | participle | things *= thing* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** | participle | things *= thing* *not said here* |  |  | trial |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to trial=Destination |
| 4 | **condemn** | past · passive |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  | to death | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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