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title: “At any rate half of him is mine,” replied the Queen, “and what good… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “At any rate half of him is mine,” replied the Queen, “and what good can the other half do you? Who acts: Queen, other half. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 91

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“At any rate half of him is mine,” replied the Queen, “and what good can the other half do you?

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**Who acts:** Queen, other half · **What happens:** be, reply, do · **To what, where:** Queen, rate half, you · **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 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, other half), 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:pg2435:19:91
# text = “At any rate half of him is mine,” replied the Queen, “and what good can the other half do you?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	12	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	24	nsubj	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Queen *not said here* | the Queen *= queen* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: ask* | past | the Queen |  |  | any rate half of death |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | can | the other half | you |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |

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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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