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title: “Promise me two things,” she said one day to the king; “one, that if… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Promise me two things,” she said one day to the king; “one, that if you marry again, as indeed you must, you will not choose as your wife a woman from some small state or distant island, who knows nothing of the world, and will be taken up with thoughts of her grandeur. Who acts: king, queen, you, 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 88

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“Promise me two things,” she said one day to the king; “one, that if you marry again, as indeed you must, you will not choose as your wife a woman from some small state or distant island, who knows nothing of the world, and will be taken up with thoughts of her grandeur.

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**Who acts:** king, queen, you, distant island · **What happens:** promise, say, marry, not choose, know, take up · **To what, where:** two things, queen, king, woman, small state, nothing · **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 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, queen, you, distant island), 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:pg2435:22:88
# text = “Promise me two things,” she said one day to the king; “one, that if you marry again, as indeed you must, you will not choose as your wife a woman from some small state or distant island, who knows nothing of the world, and will be taken up with thoughts of her grandeur.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Promise	promise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	marry	marry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	42	det	_	_
41	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
48	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
49	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	48	obj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
55	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
56	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	aux:pass	_	_
57	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
58	up	up	ADP	RP	_	57	compound:prt	_	_
59	with	with	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obl	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
63	grandeur	grandeur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | imperative | the king *= king* *not said here* | two things | queen |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | queen |  | the king |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient |
| 3 | **marry** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  | again |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **choose** *in a quote* | future | you | a woman |  | some small state or distant island |  | as your wife | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent woman=Theme from state=Source |
| 5 | **know** *in a quote* | present | distant island | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 6 | **take up** *in a quote* | future · passive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with thoughts of queen's grandeur | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP» |
| 7 | **think** *in a quote* |  |  | queen's grandeur |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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