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title: One day he went to the king and told him that the lamp the brothers… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day he went to the king and told him that the lamp the brothers had procured was good enough, but they could still get for him something that was far better. Who acts: Sir, lamp, brothers, that. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 26

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One day he went to the king and told him that the lamp the brothers had procured was good enough, but they could still get for him something that was far better.

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**Who acts:** Sir, lamp, brothers, that · **What happens:** go, tell, procure, be, get · **To what, where:** Sir, brothers, something · **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 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, lamp, brothers, that), 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:pg5615:29:26
# text = One day he went to the king and told him that the lamp the brothers had procured was good enough, but they could still get for him something that was far better.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	procured	procure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
20	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	obj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
33	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **go** | past | Sir |  |  |  | day | to the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Sir *not said here* |  | Sir |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **procure** | past · perfect · passive | the lamp *not said here* | the brothers |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the lamp |  |  |  |  | enough, good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | could | brothers *= brother* | something |  |  | still | for Sir | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent something=Theme for he=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | far, good *property* | tree rules |

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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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