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title: A powerful king had, among many other treasures, a wonderful tree in… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A powerful king had, among many other treasures, a wonderful tree in his garden, which bore every year beautiful golden apples. Who acts: powerful king, wonderful tree. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 1

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A powerful king had, among many other treasures, a wonderful tree in his garden, which bore every year beautiful golden apples.

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**Who acts:** powerful king, wonderful tree · **What happens:** have, bear · **To what, where:** many other treasures, beautiful golden apples

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (powerful king, wonderful tree), 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:pg7277:52:1
# text = A powerful king had, among many other treasures, a wonderful tree in his garden, which bore every year beautiful golden apples.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	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 | **have** | past | a powerful king | many other treasures  a wonderful tree in king's garden |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Patient |
| 2 | **bear** | past | a wonderful tree in king's garden | beautiful golden apples |  |  | year |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient |

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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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