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title: This rose and this nightingale the Princess was to have, and so they… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This rose and this nightingale the Princess was to have, and so they were both put into silver caskets and sent to her. Who acts: rose. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 11

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This rose and this nightingale the Princess was to have, and so they were both put into silver caskets and sent to her.

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**Who acts:** rose · **What happens:** have, put, send · **To what, where:** melodies, silver caskets, nightingale

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rose), 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:pg640:43:11
# text = This rose and this nightingale the Princess was to have, and so they were both put into silver caskets and sent to her.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	both	both	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	caskets	casket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | this rose and this nightingale |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** | past · passive |  | melodies *= melody* |  | silver caskets |  | both *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 3 | **send** | participle |  |  | nightingale |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to she=Destination |

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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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