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title: Very soon after this some foreign merchants travelled along that sam… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Very soon after this some foreign merchants travelled along that same road on the way to see Mark and to pay the twelve thousand crowns which they owed him. Who acts: foreign merchants, thousand crowns. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 29

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Very soon after this some foreign merchants travelled along that same road on the way to see Mark and to pay the twelve thousand crowns which they owed him.

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**Who acts:** foreign merchants, thousand crowns · **What happens:** travel, see, pay, owe · **To what, where:** way, Mark, thousand crowns

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foreign merchants, thousand crowns), 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:pg641:4:29
# text = Very soon after this some foreign merchants travelled along that same road on the way to see Mark and to pay the twelve thousand crowns which they owed him.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	along	along	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
18	Mark	Mark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	compound	_	_
24	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	owed	owe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past | some foreign merchants |  |  | the way |  | along that same road; soon *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | some foreign merchants *not said here* | Mark |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus |
| 3 | **pay** | to-infinitive | some foreign merchants *not said here* | the thousand crowns |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Asset |
| 4 | **owe** | past | the thousand crowns |  | Mark |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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