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title: They were long married and had no children; but at last a baby-boy c… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They were long married and had no children; but at last a baby-boy came to the queen when the king was away in the far countries. Who acts: last, king. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 2

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They were long married and had no children; but at last a baby-boy came to the queen when the king was away in the far countries.

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**Who acts:** last, king · **What happens:** marry, have, come, be · **To what, where:** king, children, far countries

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, 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:pg7439:12:2
# text = They were long married and had no children; but at last a baby-boy came to the queen when the king was away in the far countries.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past · passive |  | king |  |  |  | long *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past |  | no children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | last |  |  |  |  | to the queen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to queen=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | the king |  |  | the far countries |  | away *property* | 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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