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title: Martin took the ring, and, having thanked the King, he set out on th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Martin took the ring, and, having thanked the King, he set out on the same road by which he had come down into the Under-world. Who acts: Martin. 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 75

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Martin took the ring, and, having thanked the King, he set out on the same road by which he had come down into the Under-world.

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**Who acts:** Martin · **What happens:** take, thank, set out, come down · **To what, where:** ring, King, same road, Under world

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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), 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:pg640:33:75
# text = Martin took the ring, and, having thanked the King, he set out on the same road by which he had come down into the Under-world.
1	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux	_	_
9	thanked	thank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	Under	Under	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Martin | the ring |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund · perfect | Martin *not said here* |  | the King |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |
| 3 | **set out** | past | Martin |  |  | the same road |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come down** | past · perfect | Martin |  |  | the Under world |  | by the same road; down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial\_Location |

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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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