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title: “I am condemned to do this, for neither I nor any of my kindred can… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am condemned to do this, for neither I nor any of my kindred can die till I have rooted up this great tree,” replied the king of the eagles. Who acts: neither, king. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 75

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“I am condemned to do this, for neither I nor any of my kindred can die till I have rooted up this great tree,” replied the king of the eagles.

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**Who acts:** neither, king · **What happens:** condemn, do, die, root up, reply · **To what, where:** king, this, great tree · **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 (neither, king), 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:pg2435:18:75
# text = “I am condemned to do this, for neither I nor any of my kindred can die till I have rooted up this great tree,” replied the king of the eagles.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	condemned	condemn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
10	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	nsubj	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	kindred	kindred	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
19	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	rooted	root	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
29	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **condemn** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the king of the eagles *= king* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 3 | **die** *in a quote* | can | neither |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **root up** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the king of the eagles *= king* | this great tree |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 5 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the king of the eagles |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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