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title: The King therefore issued a proclamation inviting twelve youths and… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King therefore issued a proclamation inviting twelve youths and twelve maidens to offer themselves up to save their country; and immediately many young people, far more than enough, hastened to do so. Who acts: King, proclamation. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 88

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The King therefore issued a proclamation inviting twelve youths and twelve maidens to offer themselves up to save their country; and immediately many young people, far more than enough, hastened to do so.

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**Who acts:** King, proclamation · **What happens:** issue, invite, offer up, save, hasten, do · **To what, where:** proclamation, twelve youths, beasts, country

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, proclamation), 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:pg640:12:88
# text = The King therefore issued a proclamation inviting twelve youths and twelve maidens to offer themselves up to save their country; and immediately many young people, far more than enough, hastened to do so.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	issued	issue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	inviting	invite	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	conj	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **issue** | past | the King | a proclamation |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location proclamation=Theme |
| 2 | **invite** | gerund | a proclamation *not said here* | twelve youths and twelve maidens |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient |
| 3 | **offer up** | to-infinitive | a proclamation *not said here* | beasts *= beast* |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 4 | **save** | to-infinitive | a proclamation *not said here* | beasts's country |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme |
| 5 | **hasten** | participle | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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