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title: Then at last the Baron saw that no one could fight against Fate, and… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then at last the Baron saw that no one could fight against Fate, and he handed her to a seat and announced to all the company that this was his son's true wife; and he took her and his son home to his castle; and they all lived as happy as could be ever afterwards. Who acts: Baron, one, this, banque
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# English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 60

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Then at last the Baron saw that no one could fight against Fate, and he handed her to a seat and announced to all the company that this was his son's true wife; and he took her and his son home to his castle; and they all lived as happy as could be ever afterwards.

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**Who acts:** Baron, one, this, banqueters · **What happens:** see, fight, hand, announce, be, take · **To what, where:** last, cook, seat, company, castle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baron, one, this, banqueters), 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:pg7439:41:60
# text = Then at last the Baron saw that no one could fight against Fate, and he handed her to a seat and announced to all the company that this was his son's true wife; and he took her and his son home to his castle; and they all lived as happy as could be ever afterwards.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Baron	Baron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	against	against	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Fate	Fate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	announced	announce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
29	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	iobj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
44	home	home	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	all	all	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
53	as	as	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	xcomp	_	_
55	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
56	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
57	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	cop	_	_
58	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	59	advmod	_	_
59	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	54	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the Baron |  |  | last | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fight** | could | no one |  |  |  |  | against Fate | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hand** | past | baron |  | cook | a seat |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to seat=Destination |
| 4 | **announce** *speech: other* | participle | baron *not said here* |  | all company |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to company=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | 's baron's son | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** | past | baron |  | cook | baron's castle |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to castle=Destination |
| 7 | **live** | past | banqueters *= banqueter* |  |  |  |  | all, happy *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | could | banqueters *= banqueter* *not said here* |  |  |  | ever | afterwards *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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