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title: In the end they told him how Sir Red had stirred up the king against… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the end they told him how Sir Red had stirred up the king against them, so that he had ordered them to get for him a boar with bristles of gold and silver time about. Who acts: Esben, Sir. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree a
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 83

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In the end they told him how Sir Red had stirred up the king against them, so that he had ordered them to get for him a boar with bristles of gold and silver time about.

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**Who acts:** Esben, Sir · **What happens:** tell, stir up, order, get · **To what, where:** king, end, Sir, Esben, boar · **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 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Esben, Sir), 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:pg5615:28:83
# text = In the end they told him how Sir Red had stirred up the king against them, so that he had ordered them to get for him a boar with bristles of gold and silver time about.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
8	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	stirred	stir	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	22	mark	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	bristles	bristle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
37	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Esben |  | king |  | in the end |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stir up** | past · perfect · passive |  | Sir |  |  |  | against Esben | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Theme king=Eventuality |
| 3 | **order** | past · perfect | Sir |  | Esben |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | Sir *not said here* | a boar |  |  |  | for Sir; with bristles of gold and silver time; about *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent boar=Theme for he=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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