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title: "Nay, proud prelate," answered the King, "all that is in this fair r… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Nay, proud prelate," answered the King, "all that is in this fair realm of England is our own, and thou hast no right to put me to shame by holding such state. Who acts: proud prelate, that, fair realm, thou. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 33

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"Nay, proud prelate," answered the King, "all that is in this fair realm of England is our own, and thou hast no right to put me to shame by holding such state.

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**Who acts:** proud prelate, that, fair realm, thou · **What happens:** answer, be, have, put, shame, hold · **To what, where:** King, fair realm, right, proud prelate, such state · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proud prelate, that, fair realm, thou), 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:pg14241:28:33
# text = "Nay, proud prelate," answered the King, "all that is in this fair realm of England is our own, and thou hast no right to put me to shame by holding such state.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	prelate	prelate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj	_	_
28	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	shame	shame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
36	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
38	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | proud prelate |  | the King |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  | all fair realm |  | of England | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | all fair realm |  |  |  |  | own *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | thou | no right |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 5 | **put** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | proud prelate *= prelate* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **shame** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **hold** *in a quote* | gerund | thou *not said here* | such state |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Theme |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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