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title: The King had already been married once, and had by his first wife se… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King had already been married once, and had by his first wife seven children, six boys and one girl, whom he loved more than anything in the world. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 12

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The King had already been married once, and had by his first wife seven children, six boys and one girl, whom he loved more than anything in the world.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** have, marry, love · **To what, where:** first wife

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. 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:pg640:4:12
# text = The King had already been married once, and had by his first wife seven children, six boys and one girl, whom he loved more than anything in the world.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	already	already	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	29	advmod	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **marry** | participle · passive | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **have** | past | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by king's first wife and seven children and six boys and one girl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **love** | past | king | king's first wife and seven children and six boys and one girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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