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title: “You have found it already,” answered the king, “for, as I said, nei… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You have found it already,” answered the king, “for, as I said, neither I nor my family can die till I have levelled this great mountain; and that will take full eight hundred years longer. Who acts: You, king, that. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, par
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 105

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“You have found it already,” answered the king, “for, as I said, neither I nor my family can die till I have levelled this great mountain; and that will take full eight hundred years longer.

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**Who acts:** You, king, that · **What happens:** find, answer, say, die, levell, take · **To what, where:** Land, great mountain, full · **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 18. 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, that), 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:pg2435:18:105
# text = “You have found it already,” answered the king, “for, as I said, neither I nor my family can die till I have levelled this great mountain; and that will take full eight hundred years longer.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	already	already	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	answered	answer	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	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc:preconj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	24	cc	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
27	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	levelled	levell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	ccomp	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	nsubj	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
39	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	obj	_	_
40	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	compound	_	_
41	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl:unmarked	_	_
43	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** *in a quote* | present · perfect | You | Land |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the king *= king* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **die** *in a quote* | can | the king *= king* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **levell** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the king *= king* | this great mountain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** *in a quote* | future | that | full |  |  |  | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent full=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:** «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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