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title: The other thing I have to ask is, that you will never cease to watch… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The other thing I have to ask is, that you will never cease to watch over our children, who will soon become your greatest joy.” Who acts: I, other thing, children, your. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 90

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The other thing I have to ask is, that you will never cease to watch over our children, who will soon become your greatest joy.”

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**Who acts:** I, other thing, children, your · **What happens:** have, ask, not be, watch, become, joy · **To what, where:** other thing, greatest joy

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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 (I, other thing, children, your), 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:pg2435:22:90
# text = The other thing I have to ask is, that you will never cease to watch over our children, who will soon become your greatest joy.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:outer	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | the other thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | the other thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | the other thing |  |  |  |  | cease *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **watch** | to-infinitive | the other thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over our children | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over child=Location |
| 5 | **become** | future | our children | your greatest joy |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **joy** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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