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title: Then the king bade the young man come into his presence, and desired… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the king bade the young man come into his presence, and desired him to fetch the queen home again, as he had boasted he could do. Who acts: king bade, man. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 38

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Then the king bade the young man come into his presence, and desired him to fetch the queen home again, as he had boasted he could do.

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**Who acts:** king bade, man · **What happens:** come, desire, fetch, boast, do · **To what, where:** presence, man, queen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (king bade, man), 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:pg2435:14:38
# text = Then the king bade the young man come into his presence, and desired him to fetch the queen home again, as he had boasted he could do.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	boasted	boast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | the king bade |  |  | man's presence | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into presence=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **desire** | past | the king bade *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fetch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the king bade *not said here* | the queen |  |  | again | home *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme |
| 4 | **boast** *speech: other* | past · perfect | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **do** | could | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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