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title: Some days after this disastrous embassy King Bayard sent couriers to… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Some days after this disastrous embassy King Bayard sent couriers to Prince Mannikin with a most friendly letter, offering his services in any difficulty, and enquiring with the deepest interest how he fared. Who acts: days, Ambassador. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of I
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 74

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Some days after this disastrous embassy King Bayard sent couriers to Prince Mannikin with a most friendly letter, offering his services in any difficulty, and enquiring with the deepest interest how he fared.

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**Who acts:** days, Ambassador · **What happens:** send, offer, enquire, fare, service · **To what, where:** couriers, Mannikin, services, difficulty

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, Ambassador), 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:pg7277:16:74
# text = Some days after this disastrous embassy King Bayard sent couriers to Prince Mannikin with a most friendly letter, offering his services in any difficulty, and enquiring with the deepest interest how he fared.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	disastrous	disastrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	embassy	embassy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	Bayard	Bayard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	couriers	courier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	enquiring	enquire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	fared	fare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | some days after this disastrous embassy | couriers | Mannikin  Prince |  |  | with a friendly letter | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent courier=Theme to mannikin=Destination |
| 2 | **offer** | gerund | some days after this disastrous embassy *not said here* | Ambassador's services |  | any difficulty |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent service=Theme |
| 3 | **enquire** *speech: other* | gerund | some days after this disastrous embassy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the deepest interest | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fare** | past | Ambassador |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **service** |  | Ambassador |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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