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title: Then they dressed him so splendidly that he was like a King’s son; a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they dressed him so splendidly that he was like a King’s son; and they put a ring on his finger, and it was one which would enable him to go there and back again by wishing, but they told him that he must not throw it away, or name their names; for if he did, all his magnificence would be at an
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# The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 76

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Then they dressed him so splendidly that he was like a King’s son; and they put a ring on his finger, and it was one which would enable him to go there and back again by wishing, but they told him that he must not throw it away, or name their names; for if he did, all his magnificence would be at an end, and then he would never see them more.

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**Who acts:** heads, Halvor, ring, magnificence · **What happens:** dress, be, put, enable, go, wish · **To what, where:** Halvor, ring, finger, one, names, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heads, Halvor, ring, magnificence), 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:pg540:6:76
# text = Then they dressed him so splendidly that he was like a King’s son; and they put a ring on his finger, and it was one which would enable him to go there and back again by wishing, but they told him that he must not throw it away, or name their names; for if he did, all his magnificence would be at an end, and then he would never see them more.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	enable	enable	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
35	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	back	back	ADV	RB	_	35	conj	_	_
38	again	again	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
39	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	iobj	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
48	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	ccomp	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	away	away	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	conj	_	_
56	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
59	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	62	mark	_	_
60	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	62	mark	_	_
61	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
62	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	71	punct	_	_
64	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	66	det:predet	_	_
65	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	66	nmod:poss	_	_
66	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	nsubj	_	_
67	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	71	aux	_	_
68	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	71	cop	_	_
69	at	at	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
70	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	71	det	_	_
71	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	78	punct	_	_
73	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	78	cc	_	_
74	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	78	advmod	_	_
75	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	78	nsubj	_	_
76	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	78	aux	_	_
77	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	78	advmod	_	_
78	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
79	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	78	obj	_	_
80	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	78	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past | heads *= head* | Halvor |  |  | then | splendidly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | Halvor |  |  |  |  | like a King's son | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | past | heads *= head* | a ring |  | Halvor's finger |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on finger=Destination |
| 4 | **is a** | past | ring | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **enable** | would |  | Halvor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | Halvor *not said here* |  |  | there | again |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **wish** | gerund | Halvor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | heads *= head* |  | Halvor |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 9 | **not** **throw away** | must | Halvor | ring |  |  |  | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 10 | **name** | infinitive | Halvor *not said here* | heads's names |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 11 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Halvor |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 12 | **is** | would | Halvor's magnificence |  |  |  | at a end |  | tree rules |
| 13 | **not** **see** | would | Halvor | heads *= head* |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 14 | **name** |  | heads *= head* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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 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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