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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 67

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Then the King had to send again and again to fetch his treasures, which the strong man shoved into the sack, and the sack was only half full.

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**Who acts:** King, treasures, sack · **What happens:** have, send, fetch, man, shove, be · **To what, where:** treasures, strong man, sack

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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, treasures, sack), 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:pg640:19:67
# text = Then the King had to send again and again to fetch his treasures, which the strong man shoved into the sack, and the sack was only half full.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
19	shoved	shove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	30	advmod	_	_
30	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the King |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | King's treasures |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
| 4 | **man** |  | King's treasures |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shove** | participle |  | the strong man *not said here* |  | the sack |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into sack=Trajectory |
| 6 | **is** | past | the sack |  |  |  |  | full, half *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **treasure** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession 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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