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title: Next, the King ordered that forty casks of wine, containing forty ga… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Next, the King ordered that forty casks of wine, containing forty gallons each, were to be drunk up on the spot by the Simpleton and his party. 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 clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 110

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Next, the King ordered that forty casks of wine, containing forty gallons each, were to be drunk up on the spot by the Simpleton and his party.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** order, contain, drink up · **To what, where:** forty casks, forty gallons, spot

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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:pg640:35:110
# text = Next, the King ordered that forty casks of wine, containing forty gallons each, were to be drunk up on the spot by the Simpleton and his party.
1	Next	next	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	casks	cask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	gallons	gallon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	drunk	drink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | the King | forty casks of wine |  |  |  | next *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cask=Theme |
| 2 | **contain** | gerund | the King *not said here* | forty gallons  each |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gallon=Theme |
| 3 | **drink up** | past · passive | the King *not said here* |  |  | the spot by the Simpleton and King's party |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» |

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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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