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title: Then he called all the tailors in the kingdom together, and made the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he called all the tailors in the kingdom together, and made them sit down for fourteen days sewing at a sack. Who acts: King, tailors, fourteen days. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 62

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Then he called all the tailors in the kingdom together, and made them sit down for fourteen days sewing at a sack.

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**Who acts:** King, tailors, fourteen days · **What happens:** call, make, sit down, sew · **To what, where:** tailors, sack · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, tailors, fourteen days), 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:pg640:19:62
# text = Then he called all the tailors in the kingdom together, and made them sit down for fourteen days sewing at a sack.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tailors	tailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	sewing	sew	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | King | all tailors in the kingdom |  |  | then | together *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | past | King *not said here* | tailors *= tailor* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit down** | infinitive | tailors *= tailor* *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sew** | gerund | fourteen days *not said here* |  |  | a sack |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at sack=Destination |

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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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