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title: He set her at table by his side, and her modest ways and behaviour p… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He set her at table by his side, and her modest ways and behaviour pleased him so much that he said, ‘I will marry this maiden and none other in the world,’ and after some days he married her. Who acts: king, I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans, with its dependency
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 66

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He set her at table by his side, and her modest ways and behaviour pleased him so much that he said, ‘I will marry this maiden and none other in the world,’ and after some days he married her.

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**Who acts:** king, I · **What happens:** set, say, marry · **To what, where:** maiden, table · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, I), 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:pg640:4:66
# text = He set her at table by his side, and her modest ways and behaviour pleased him so much that he said, ‘I will marry this maiden and none other in the world,’ and after some days he married her.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	modest	modest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	29	conj	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
39	after	after	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	41	det	_	_
41	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
44	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | king | maiden |  | table |  | by king's side | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme at table=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **marry** | future | I | this maiden |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Patient |
| 4 | **marry** | past | king | maiden |  |  | day |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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