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title: Then he will bring forward a whole troop of women, and cause them to… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he will bring forward a whole troop of women, and cause them to pass before you, in order that you may pick out the one that you take for his daughter. Who acts: father, women, you. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 39

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Then he will bring forward a whole troop of women, and cause them to pass before you, in order that you may pick out the one that you take for his daughter.

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**Who acts:** father, women, you · **What happens:** bring forward, cause, pass, pick out, take · **To what, where:** whole troop, women, order, one

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, women, you), 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:pg5615:27:39
# text = Then he will bring forward a whole troop of women, and cause them to pass before you, in order that you may pick out the one that you take for his daughter.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	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 | **bring forward** | future | father | a whole troop of women |  |  | then | forward *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent troop=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** | infinitive |  | women *= woman* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | to-infinitive | women *= woman* *not said here* |  |  | order | before you |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before you=Location |
| 4 | **pick out** | may | you | the one |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 5 | **take** | present | you | the one |  |  |  | for father's daughter | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent that=Theme for daughter=Beneficiary |

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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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