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title: After the old man had bowed politely and taken farewell of them the… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After the old man had bowed politely and taken farewell of them the eldest brother said to the rest, ‘I will go in search of the water of life, and the talking bird, and the tree of beauty.’ Who acts: old man, eldest brother, I. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 52

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After the old man had bowed politely and taken farewell of them the eldest brother said to the rest, ‘I will go in search of the water of life, and the talking bird, and the tree of beauty.’

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**Who acts:** old man, eldest brother, I · **What happens:** bow, take, say, go, search · **To what, where:** farewell, talking bird, search, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (old man, eldest brother, I), 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:pg5615:20:52
# text = After the old man had bowed politely and taken farewell of them the eldest brother said to the rest, ‘I will go in search of the water of life, and the talking bird, and the tree of beauty.’
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	bowed	bow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
7	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
10	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	talking	talking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bow** | past · perfect | the old man |  |  |  |  | politely *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | participle | the old man *not said here* | farewell of flowers |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farewell=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the eldest brother |  |  |  |  | to the rest | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to rest=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | future | I | the talking bird |  | search of the water of life |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location |
| 5 | **search** |  |  | the water of life |  |  |  |  | nom search «act 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 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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