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title: Many of the young braves sought her in marriage, but she would liste… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Many of the young braves sought her in marriage, but she would listen to one only--a handsome chief, who had taken her fancy some years before. Who acts: Many young braves, maiden, handsome chief. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21), with its dependency tr
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 3

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Many of the young braves sought her in marriage, but she would listen to one only--a handsome chief, who had taken her fancy some years before.

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**Who acts:** Many young braves, maiden, handsome chief · **What happens:** seek, listen, take, fancy · **To what, where:** maiden, marriage, handsome chief, one, fancy

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many young braves, maiden, handsome chief), 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:pg640:28:3
# text = Many of the young braves sought her in marriage, but she would listen to one only--a handsome chief, who had taken her fancy some years before.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	braves	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	before	before	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past | the Many young braves | maiden |  | marriage |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in marriage=Location |
| 2 | **listen** | would | maiden | a handsome chief | one |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to one=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past · perfect | a handsome chief | maiden's fancy |  |  | year | before *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme |
| 4 | **fancy** |  | maiden |  |  |  |  |  | nom fancy «cognition 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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