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title: “Well, give him a hundred pieces of gold,” said the Sultan, turning… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well, give him a hundred pieces of gold,” said the Sultan, turning to the Grand Vizir. Who acts: Sultan. 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.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 93

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“Well, give him a hundred pieces of gold,” said the Sultan, turning to the Grand Vizir.

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**Who acts:** Sultan · **What happens:** give, say, turn · **To what, where:** hundred pieces, Sultan · **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 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan), 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:pg2435:28:93
# text = “Well, give him a hundred pieces of gold,” said the Sultan, turning to the Grand Vizir.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Grand	Grand	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Vizir	Vizir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | hundred pieces of gold | Sultan |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient piece=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Sultan |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **turn** | gerund | the Sultan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Grand Vizir *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to vizir=Result |

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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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