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title: So the stranger left him, but the king followed path after path for… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the stranger left him, but the king followed path after path for three whole days, with no better success than before. Who acts: stranger, king. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 8

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So the stranger left him, but the king followed path after path for three whole days, with no better success than before.

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**Who acts:** stranger, king · **What happens:** leave, follow · **To what, where:** dog, path

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, king), 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:pg641:9:8
# text = So the stranger left him, but the king followed path after path for three whole days, with no better success than before.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
21	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	before	before	ADV	RB	_	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | the stranger |  | dog |  |  | with no better success | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with success=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | past | the king | path |  |  | after path; day |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=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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