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title: Before the king set out afresh on his travels Aveline had restored t… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Before the king set out afresh on his travels Aveline had restored to him his horse and his sword, and though these were but small consolation for the absence of the princess, they were better than nothing, for he felt that somehow they might be the means of leading him back to her. Who acts: Avelin
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 72

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Before the king set out afresh on his travels Aveline had restored to him his horse and his sword, and though these were but small consolation for the absence of the princess, they were better than nothing, for he felt that somehow they might be the means of leading him back to her.

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**Who acts:** Aveline, these, sword, king · **What happens:** set out, travel, restore, be, feel, lead back · **To what, where:** horse, king, small consolation, Aveline, princess

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aveline, these, sword, king), 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:pg5615:30:72
# text = Before the king set out afresh on his travels Aveline had restored to him his horse and his sword, and though these were but small consolation for the absence of the princess, they were better than nothing, for he felt that somehow they might be the means of leading him back to her.
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	afresh	afresh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Aveline	Aveline	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
22	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	consolation	consolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	advcl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	parataxis	_	_
38	than	than	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
45	somehow	somehow	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
47	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	cop	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	nsubj	_	_
50	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	ccomp	_	_
51	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
52	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	50	advcl	_	_
53	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	back	back	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
55	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **travel** | present |  |  |  |  | before set afresh |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **restore** | past · perfect | Aveline | king's horse and king's sword | king |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to he=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | these | small consolation |  |  |  | for the absence of the princess | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | sword |  |  |  |  | than nothing; good *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **feel** | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | might | sword |  |  |  |  | mean, somehow *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **lead back** | gerund | sword *not said here* | king | Aveline |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to she=Destination |
| 9 | **absent** |  |  | the princess |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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