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title: In the night the king sent for his youngest daughter, and as she did… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the night the king sent for his youngest daughter, and as she did not come he sent again; but she did not come any the more for that. Who acts: king, daughter. 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
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 54

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In the night the king sent for his youngest daughter, and as she did not come he sent again; but she did not come any the more for that.

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**Who acts:** king, daughter · **What happens:** send, not come · **To what, where:** any

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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 (king, daughter), 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:pg641:42:54
# text = In the night the king sent for his youngest daughter, and as she did not come he sent again; but she did not come any the more for that.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
27	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	obj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	obl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the king |  |  |  | night | for king's youngest daughter | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **come** | past · do-support | daughter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **send** | past | king |  |  |  | again |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **come** | past · do-support | daughter | any |  |  |  | the more *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location any=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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