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title: So he told another courtier to go to the Simpleton with the command… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he told another courtier to go to the Simpleton with the command that he and his comrades were instantly to eat up twelve oxen and twelve tons of bread. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 100

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So he told another courtier to go to the Simpleton with the command that he and his comrades were instantly to eat up twelve oxen and twelve tons of bread.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** tell, go, eat up · **To what, where:** courtier, Simpleton, twelve oxen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg640:35:100
# text = So he told another courtier to go to the Simpleton with the command that he and his comrades were instantly to eat up twelve oxen and twelve tons of bread.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	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	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	courtier	courtier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	tons	ton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	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 | King |  | another courtier |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent courtier=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  | the Simpleton |  | with the command | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to simpleton=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **eat up** | past | King | twelve oxen and twelve tons of bread |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Patient |

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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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