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title: Taking the loaves in his arm he followed the boy, and, bowing low, l… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking the loaves in his arm he followed the boy, and, bowing low, laid them down before the king. Who acts: prince, Taking. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 28

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Taking the loaves in his arm he followed the boy, and, bowing low, laid them down before the king.

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**Who acts:** prince, Taking · **What happens:** take, follow, bow, lay down · **To what, where:** loaves, arm, boy

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, Taking), 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:pg641:42:28
# text = Taking the loaves in his arm he followed the boy, and, bowing low, laid them down before the king.
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	bowing	bow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
15	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  | the loaves |  | prince's arm |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent loaf=Value in arm=Location |
| 2 | **follow** | past | prince | the boy |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme |
| 3 | **bow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lay down** | past | Taking | loaves *= loaf* |  |  | before the king |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme before king=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 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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