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title: From this time the apprentice went regularly up to the palace, recei… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: From this time the apprentice went regularly up to the palace, receiving each morning twelve ducats in payment. Who acts: apprentice. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 11

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From this time the apprentice went regularly up to the palace, receiving each morning twelve ducats in payment.

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**Who acts:** apprentice · **What happens:** go, receive · **To what, where:** palace, twelve ducats, payment

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apprentice), 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:pg641:6:11
# text = From this time the apprentice went regularly up to the palace, receiving each morning twelve ducats in payment.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	regularly	regularly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	ducats	ducat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	payment	payment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the apprentice |  |  | the palace | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **receive** | gerund | the apprentice *not said here* | twelve ducats |  | payment | morning |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ducat=Theme in payment=Location |

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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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