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title: Although the stranger’s name and rank were unknown to Rosalie’s fath… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Although the stranger’s name and rank were unknown to Rosalie’s father, he was really the son of the King of the Golden Isle, which had for capital a city that extended from one sea to another. Who acts: name, foot, son, city. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 24

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Although the stranger’s name and rank were unknown to Rosalie’s father, he was really the son of the King of the Golden Isle, which had for capital a city that extended from one sea to another.

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**Who acts:** name, foot, son, city, stranger · **What happens:** be, have, extend, name · **To what, where:** son, city, another, one sea

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (name, foot, son, city), 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:pg640:16:24
# text = Although the stranger’s name and rank were unknown to Rosalie’s father, he was really the son of the King of the Golden Isle, which had for capital a city that extended from one sea to another.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	really	really	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Isle	Isle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	extended	extend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the stranger's name and rank |  |  |  |  | to Rosalie's father; unknown *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | foot | the son |  |  |  | of the King of the Golden Isle | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | the son | a city |  |  |  | for capital | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient |
| 4 | **extend** | past | a city |  | another | one sea |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to another=Recipient |
| 5 | **name** |  | the stranger |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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