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title: Then he conducted her back to the King’s palace, and if honour enoug… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he conducted her back to the King’s palace, and if honour enough had not been done him before it was certainly done now, for the King had no other thought than how to make much of the man who had saved his daughter from the three Trolls; and it was settled then that Ritter Red should marry her,
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 85

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Then he conducted her back to the King’s palace, and if honour enough had not been done him before it was certainly done now, for the King had no other thought than how to make much of the man who had saved his daughter from the three Trolls; and it was settled then that Ritter Red should marry her, and receive half the kingdom.

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**Who acts:** danger, King, Ritter · **What happens:** conduct back, not do, do, have, make, save · **To what, where:** daughter, palace, honour, other thought, much, man

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (danger, King, Ritter), 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:pg540:45:85
# text = Then he conducted her back to the King’s palace, and if honour enough had not been done him before it was certainly done now, for the King had no other thought than how to make much of the man who had saved his daughter from the three Trolls; and it was settled then that Ritter Red should marry her, and receive half the kingdom.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl	_	_
39	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl:relcl	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	from	from	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	nummod	_	_
51	Trolls	troll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	56	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux:pass	_	_
56	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
57	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	62	advmod	_	_
58	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	62	mark	_	_
59	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
60	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	flat	_	_
61	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	62	aux	_	_
62	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	advcl	_	_
63	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
65	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
66	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	62	conj	_	_
67	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	69	det:predet	_	_
68	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
69	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct back** | past | danger | daughter |  | the King's palace | then |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to palace=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | honour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past · passive |  | honour |  |  | now | certainly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **have** | past | the King | no other thought |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | much of the man |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset much=Product |
| 6 | **save** | past · perfect · passive |  | the man |  | the three Trolls |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary daughter=Theme |
| 7 | **settle** | past · passive |  | honour |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
| 8 | **marry** | should | Ritter | daughter |  |  | then |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 9 | **receive** | infinitive | Ritter *not said here* | half kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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