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title: After eight days the bridal pair said farewell to the king, and set… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After eight days the bridal pair said farewell to the king, and set sail for the youth’s own country, taking with them a whole shipload of treasures as the princess’s dowry. Who acts: bridal pair. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency t
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 124

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After eight days the bridal pair said farewell to the king, and set sail for the youth’s own country, taking with them a whole shipload of treasures as the princess’s dowry.

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**Who acts:** bridal pair · **What happens:** say, take · **To what, where:** set sail, king, whole shipload · **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 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridal pair), 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:pg5615:24:124
# text = After eight days the bridal pair said farewell to the king, and set sail for the youth’s own country, taking with them a whole shipload of treasures as the princess’s dowry.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	farewell	farewell	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	shipload	shipload	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	dowry	dowry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the bridal pair | set sail for the youth's own country | the king |  | day | farewell *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | the bridal pair *not said here* | a whole shipload of treasures |  |  |  | with doors *= door*; as the princess's dowry | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent shipload=Theme as dowry=Attribute |

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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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