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title: Not long after he had gone there arrived at the river a slave who ha… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Not long after he had gone there arrived at the river a slave who had been sent by the king to learn the fate of his beloved daughter. Who acts: father, slave, king. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 22

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Not long after he had gone there arrived at the river a slave who had been sent by the king to learn the fate of his beloved daughter.

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**Who acts:** father, slave, king · **What happens:** go, arrive, send, learn, fate · **To what, where:** river, slave, fate, beloved daughter

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, slave, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg5615:2336`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:23:22
# text = Not long after he had gone there arrived at the river a slave who had been sent by the king to learn the fate of his beloved daughter.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
3	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	_	8	expl	_	_
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:agent	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | a slave |  |  | the river; there |  | long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | past · perfect · passive | the king | a slave |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **learn** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | the fate of father's beloved daughter |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Topic |
| 5 | **fate** |  |  | father's beloved daughter |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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