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title: The king then took a great desire for her, and ordered her brother t… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king then took a great desire for her, and ordered her brother to go home and bring her back with him, for he trusted no one better to accomplish that errand. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 80

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The king then took a great desire for her, and ordered her brother to go home and bring her back with him, for he trusted no one better to accomplish that errand.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** take, order, go, bring back, trust, accomplish · **To what, where:** great desire, brother, girl, one, errand

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg5615:31:80
# text = The king then took a great desire for her, and ordered her brother to go home and bring her back with him, for he trusted no one better to accomplish that errand.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	trusted	trust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	xcomp	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
33	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	errand	errand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	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 | **take** | past | the king | a great desire |  |  | then | for girl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent desire=Theme for she=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **order** | past | the king *not said here* |  | girl's brother |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bring back** | infinitive | the king *not said here* |  | girl |  |  | with king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
| 5 | **trust** | past | king | no one |  |  |  | good *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 6 | **accomplish** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | that errand |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent errand=Eventuality |

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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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