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title: They returned him sincere thanks for his kindness, and he, being wel… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They returned him sincere thanks for his kindness, and he, being well acquainted with the road, in a short time brought them within view of the knight’s castle. Who acts: knights. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., with its dependency tree and
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 54

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They returned him sincere thanks for his kindness, and he, being well acquainted with the road, in a short time brought them within view of the knight’s castle.

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**Who acts:** knights · **What happens:** return, acquaint, bring, view · **To what, where:** Thief, knights, castle

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights), 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:pg540:8:54
# text = They returned him sincere thanks for his kindness, and he, being well acquainted with the road, in a short time brought them within view of the knight’s castle.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	sincere	sincere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
24	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	within	within	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’s	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | knights *= knight* | Thief |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme thanks=Eventuality |
| 2 | **acquaint** *speech: other* | gerund · passive |  | Thief |  |  |  | with the road; well *property* | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **bring** | past |  | knights *= knight* |  |  | time | within view of the knight's castle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **view** |  |  | the knight's castle |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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