--- title: And the King answered: “Because of the luck you have brought me, in… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And the King answered: “Because of the luck you have brought me, in freeing my palace from the plague which has tormented me for many years, I will give you the choice of two things. Who acts: King, you. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/18/44/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/18/) / 44 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 44 And the King answered: “Because of the luck you have brought me, in freeing my palace from the plague which has tormented me for many years, I will give you the choice of two things. **Who acts:** King, you · **What happens:** answer, bring, free, torment, give · **To what, where:** King, palace, plague, choice, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (King, you), 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:pg2435:18:44 # text = And the King answered: “Because of the luck you have brought me, in freeing my palace from the plague which has tormented me for many years, I will give you the choice of two things. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 6 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 10 case _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 14 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 in in SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 freeing free VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 18 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 plague plague NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 tormented torment VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 iobj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the King | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | | the King *= king* | | | because the luck | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | | 3 | **free** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | my palace | | the plague | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer palace=Source | | 4 | **torment** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | the plague | | | year | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer i=Result | | 5 | **give** *in a quote* | future | the King *= king* | the choice of two things | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient choice=Theme | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/18/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/18/45/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/18/)