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title: So, under pretence of visiting some small islands that belonged to h… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So, under pretence of visiting some small islands that belonged to his father, he set out. Who acts: pretence, small islands, King. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 31

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So, under pretence of visiting some small islands that belonged to his father, he set out.

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**Who acts:** pretence, small islands, King · **What happens:** visit, belong, set out · **To what, where:** small islands, pretence

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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 (pretence, small islands, 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:pg640:16:31
# text = So, under pretence of visiting some small islands that belonged to his father, he set out.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	pretence	pretence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | gerund | pretence *not said here* | some small islands |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **belong** | past | some small islands |  |  |  |  | to King's father | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **set out** | past | King |  |  | pretence |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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