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title: The King sent off for his physician in ordinary, who washed Jack all… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King sent off for his physician in ordinary, who washed Jack all over with various essences and salves, so that he became white and was a remarkably handsome young man. Who acts: King, Jack. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 71

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The King sent off for his physician in ordinary, who washed Jack all over with various essences and salves, so that he became white and was a remarkably handsome young man.

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**Who acts:** King, Jack · **What happens:** send off, wash, become, be · **To what, where:** ordinary, Jack, handsome young man

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Jack), 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:pg7277:48:71
# text = The King sent off for his physician in ordinary, who washed Jack all over with various essences and salves, so that he became white and was a remarkably handsome young man.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	physician	physician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	over	over	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	essences	essence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	salves	salve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	25	mark	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
26	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	remarkably	remarkably	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send off** | past | the King |  |  | ordinary |  | for King's physician | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ordinary=Destination |
| 2 | **wash** | past |  | Jack |  |  |  | with various essences and salves; over *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent jack=Patient with essence=Instrument |
| 3 | **become** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  | white *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Jack *not said here* | a handsome young man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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