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title: The boy was still young when, one day, the king said to his wife: “I… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The boy was still young when, one day, the king said to his wife: “I feel that the hour of my death draws near, and I want you to promise that you will never take another husband but will give up your life to the care of our son.” Who acts: boy, king, I, hour. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 46

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The boy was still young when, one day, the king said to his wife: “I feel that the hour of my death draws near, and I want you to promise that you will never take another husband but will give up your life to the care of our son.”

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**Who acts:** boy, king, I, hour, you, my · **What happens:** be, say, feel, draw, want, promise · **To what, where:** wife, you, husband, life, care · **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 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, king, I, hour), 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:pg2435:20:46
# text = The boy was still young when, one day, the king said to his wife: “I feel that the hour of my death draws near, and I want you to promise that you will never take another husband but will give up your life to the care of our son.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	draws	draw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
28	near	near	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	ccomp	_	_
41	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	42	det	_	_
42	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
46	up	up	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
47	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the boy |  |  |  | still | young *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  | king's wife |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient |
| 3 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **draw** *in a quote* | present | the hour of my death |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **want** *in a quote* | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **promise** *speech: promise* *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **take** *in a quote* | future | you |  | another husband |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument husband=Destination |
| 8 | **give up** *in a quote* | future | I *not said here* | your life | the care of our son |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent life=Theme to care=Recipient |
| 9 | **die** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **care** *in a quote* |  | our son |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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