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title: The king gave them many fine presents, but Esben did not get even so… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king gave them many fine presents, but Esben did not get even so much as thanks from them. Who acts: king, Esben. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 24

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The king gave them many fine presents, but Esben did not get even so much as thanks from them.

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**Who acts:** king, Esben · **What happens:** give, not get · **To what, where:** many fine presents, brothers, much

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Esben), 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:pg5615:29:24
# text = The king gave them many fine presents, but Esben did not get even so much as thanks from them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	Esben	Esben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the king | many fine presents | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient present=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **get** | past · do-support | Esben | much |  |  |  | as thanks from brothers | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus as thanks=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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