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title: Then he was just the kind of man they liked, said they, and he might… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he was just the kind of man they liked, said they, and he might easily earn a good penny, before he was a day older, for the king paid a hundred dollars to anyone who would stand as sentinel in the church all night, beside his daughter’s chest. Who acts: Christian, officers, kind, king. A sente
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 134

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Then he was just the kind of man they liked, said they, and he might easily earn a good penny, before he was a day older, for the king paid a hundred dollars to anyone who would stand as sentinel in the church all night, beside his daughter’s chest.

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**Who acts:** Christian, officers, kind, king · **What happens:** be, like, say, earn, pay, stand · **To what, where:** kind, man, good penny, hundred dollars, church · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christian, officers, kind, 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:pg5615:6:134
# text = Then he was just the kind of man they liked, said they, and he might easily earn a good penny, before he was a day older, for the king paid a hundred dollars to anyone who would stand as sentinel in the church all night, beside his daughter’s chest.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	34	obl	_	_
40	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
41	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	acl:relcl	_	_
43	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	sentinel	sentinel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
48	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	49	det	_	_
49	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	’s	's	PART	POS	_	53	case	_	_
55	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Christian | the kind |  |  | then | of man | tree rules |
| 2 | **like** | past | officers *= officer* | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot man=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the kind |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **earn** | might | Christian | a good penny |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | Christian |  |  |  | day | old *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **pay** | past | the king | hundred dollars |  |  |  | to anyone | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Asset |
| 7 | **stand** | would |  |  |  | the church | night | as sentinel; beside Christian's daughter's chest | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in church=Location |

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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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