--- title: “That is bad news,” replied the Sultan; “I must get you another wife.” — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “That is bad news,” replied the Sultan; “I must get you another wife.” Who acts: That, bad news. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/28/66/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/28/) / 66 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 66 “That is bad news,” replied the Sultan; “I must get you another wife.” **Who acts:** That, bad news · **What happens:** be, reply, get · **To what, where:** bad news, Sultan, wife, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, bad news), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:28:66 # text = “That is bad news,” replied the Sultan; “I must get you another wife.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 18 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ” " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | bad news | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | bad news | the Sultan | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **get** *in a quote* | must | bad news *= news* | another wife | you | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary wife=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/28/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/28/67/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/28/)