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title: “Then I beg your Highness to ask Lucky Luck this question: Why is it… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Then I beg your Highness to ask Lucky Luck this question: Why is it that though I have an excellent mill, with all its machinery complete, and get plenty of grain to grind, I am so poor that I hardly know how to live from one day to another?” Who acts: prince, question. A sentence of «The Crimson F
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 67

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“Then I beg your Highness to ask Lucky Luck this question: Why is it that though I have an excellent mill, with all its machinery complete, and get plenty of grain to grind, I am so poor that I hardly know how to live from one day to another?”

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**Who acts:** prince, question · **What happens:** beg, ask, have, get, grind, be · **To what, where:** Highness, question, Lucky Luck, excellent mill, plenty · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, question), 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:pg2435:2:67
# text = “Then I beg your Highness to ask Lucky Luck this question: Why is it that though I have an excellent mill, with all its machinery complete, and get plenty of grain to grind, I am so poor that I hardly know how to live from one day to another?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Highness	highness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	Lucky	Lucky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Luck	Luck	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
14	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	machinery	machinery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
29	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
33	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	grind	grind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
44	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
47	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	49	advmod	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	ccomp	_	_
50	from	from	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nummod	_	_
52	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | present | the prince *= prince* | your Highness |  |  | then |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent highness=Recipient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the prince *= prince* *not said here* | this question | Lucky Luck |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the prince *= prince* | a excellent mill |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Patient |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | plenty of grain |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plenty=Stimulus |
| 5 | **grind** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | question |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **know** *in a quote* | present | the prince *= prince* |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **live** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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