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title: The young King was devoted to hunting, and often indulged in his fav… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 97

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The young King was devoted to hunting, and often indulged in his favourite pastime, attended by the noblest youths in his kingdom.

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**What happens:** devote, indulge, attend · **To what, where:** young King, hunting, favourite pastime

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg640:22:97
# text = The young King was devoted to hunting, and often indulged in his favourite pastime, attended by the noblest youths in his kingdom.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	devoted	devote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	indulged	indulge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pastime	pastime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	noblest	noble	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **devote** | past · passive |  | the young King |  |  |  | to hunting *goal* | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme to hunting=Goal |
| 2 | **indulge** | participle |  |  |  | King's favourite pastime |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **attend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the noblest youths in King's kingdom | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by youth=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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