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title: Then he told them the King’s commands, and they answered that by nex… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he told them the King’s commands, and they answered that by next morning all should be accomplished exactly as the King had ordered. Who acts: Martin, fear, King. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 126

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Then he told them the King’s commands, and they answered that by next morning all should be accomplished exactly as the King had ordered.

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**Who acts:** Martin, fear, King · **What happens:** tell, answer, accomplish, order, command · **To what, where:** commands, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin, fear, 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:pg640:33:126
# text = Then he told them the King’s commands, and they answered that by next morning all should be accomplished exactly as the King had ordered.
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	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	commands	command	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	_
21	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Martin |  | the King's commands |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient command=Topic |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | fear |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **accomplish** | should · passive |  | all |  |  | morning |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **order** | past · perfect | the King |  |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **command** |  | the King |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication 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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