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title: He carried his burden to the ship and stowed his treasures away, and… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He carried his burden to the ship and stowed his treasures away, and the youth followed, leading the king’s daughter. Who acts: man, youth. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 12

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He carried his burden to the ship and stowed his treasures away, and the youth followed, leading the king’s daughter.

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**Who acts:** man, youth · **What happens:** carry, stow away, follow, lead, burden, treasure · **To what, where:** burden, ship, treasures, daughter

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, youth), 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:pg5615:20:12
# text = He carried his burden to the ship and stowed his treasures away, and the youth followed, leading the king’s daughter.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	stowed	stow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | man | man's burden |  | the ship |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent burden=Theme to ship=Destination |
| 2 | **stow away** | past | man *not said here* | man's treasures |  |  |  | away *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | past | the youth |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lead** | gerund | the youth *not said here* | the king's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |
| 5 | **burden** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **treasure** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession 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 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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