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title: They went in and found it was a king's castle, who had two sons, and… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They went in and found it was a king's castle, who had two sons, and one of them was sickening away to death and no one could find out what ailed him. Who acts: sisters, lodging, castle, one. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 22

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They went in and found it was a king's castle, who had two sons, and one of them was sickening away to death and no one could find out what ailed him.

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**Who acts:** sisters, lodging, castle, one · **What happens:** go in, find, be, have, sicken away, find out · **To what, where:** castle, two sons, sheep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, lodging, castle, one), 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:pg7439:43:22
# text = They went in and found it was a king's castle, who had two sons, and one of them was sickening away to death and no one could find out what ailed him.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	sickening	sicken	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	34	nsubj	_	_
34	ailed	ail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go in** | past | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | sisters *= sister* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | lodging | a king's castle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | a king's castle | two sons |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 5 | **sicken away** | past · progressive | one of sisters |  |  |  |  | to death; away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **find out** | could | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **ail** | past |  | sheep |  |  |  |  | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient he=Experiencer |

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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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