--- title: "Two weeks you shall have," said the king; "but if then you fail to… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics description: "Two weeks you shall have," said the king; "but if then you fail to answer me, you shall lose your head, and all your lands shall be mine." Who acts: you, king, lands. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, king, lands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg18442:9:26 # text = "Two weeks you shall have," said the king; "but if then you fail to answer me, you shall lose your head, and all your lands shall be mine." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|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 , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 obl _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 fail fail VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 30 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 32 det:predet _ _ 31 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 33 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 cop _ _ 35 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | you | | | | week | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **fail** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | the king *= king* | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | | 5 | **lose** *in a quote* | shall | you | your head | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | shall | your lands | the king *= king* | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/9/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/9/27/) - ↑ back to [I. the Three Questions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/9/)