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title: When the battle was over, the king sent for him to thank him for his… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the battle was over, the king sent for him to thank him for his timely help, and to ask what reward he should give him. Who acts: battle, king, knight. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 51

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When the battle was over, the king sent for him to thank him for his timely help, and to ask what reward he should give him.

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**Who acts:** battle, king, knight · **What happens:** be, send, thank, ask, give, help · **To what, where:** knight, reward, king

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (battle, king, knight), 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:pg2435:13:51
# text = When the battle was over, the king sent for him to thank him for his timely help, and to ask what reward he should give him.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	timely	timely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
23	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	24	det	_	_
24	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the battle |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | for knight | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  | knight |  |  | for knight's timely help | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for help=Attribute |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | what reward |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reward=Recipient |
| 5 | **give** | should | knight | what reward *not said here* | king |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **help** |  | knight |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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