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title: Soon after he died the king set forth a proclamation through the who… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after he died the king set forth a proclamation through the whole country that whoever could build a ship that should float both on land and sea should have his daughter to wife. Who acts: man, king, whole country, ship. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, p
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 21

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Soon after he died the king set forth a proclamation through the whole country that whoever could build a ship that should float both on land and sea should have his daughter to wife.

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**Who acts:** man, king, whole country, ship · **What happens:** die, set, build, float, have · **To what, where:** proclamation, whole country, ship, both, land, daughter

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, king, whole country, ship), 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:pg5615:19:21
# text = Soon after he died the king set forth a proclamation through the whole country that whoever could build a ship that should float both on land and sea should have his daughter to wife.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
7	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | man |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **set** | participle | the king *not said here* | a proclamation |  | the whole country |  | forth *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent proclamation=Theme through country=Destination |
| 3 | **build** | could | the whole country | a ship |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ship=Product |
| 4 | **float** | should | a ship | both |  | land and sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent both=Theme on land=Trajectory |
| 5 | **have** | should | the king | man's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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