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title: "Now, my little folks," said the king, "I want to ask you some ques-… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: "Now, my little folks," said the king, "I want to ask you some ques-tions, and the child who gives the best answer shall have a prize." Who acts: little folks, child. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Kingdoms., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 14

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"Now, my little folks," said the king, "I want to ask you some ques-tions, and the child who gives the best answer shall have a prize."

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**Who acts:** little folks, child · **What happens:** say, want, ask, give, have · **To what, where:** king, ques, you, best answer, prize · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Kingdoms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little folks, child), 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:pg18442:43:14
# text = "Now, my little folks," said the king, "I want to ask you some ques-tions, and the child who gives the best answer shall have a prize."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	ques	que	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	tions	tion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | my little folks | the king |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** *in a quote* | present | my little folks *= folk* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | my little folks *= folk* *not said here* | some ques and tions | you |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | present | the child | the best answer |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | the child | a prize |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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