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title: He led him to the king, who fell into a furious passion, and said: “… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He led him to the king, who fell into a furious passion, and said: “Well, you have learned what it is to be very near death, and now will you say ‘To my good health’?” Who acts: shepherd, king, you, passion. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, with 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 91

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He led him to the king, who fell into a furious passion, and said: “Well, you have learned what it is to be very near death, and now will you say ‘To my good health’?”

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**Who acts:** shepherd, king, you, passion · **What happens:** lead, fall, say, learn, be · **To what, where:** Chamberlain, furious passion, death · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, king, you, passion), 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:pg2435:3:91
# text = He led him to the king, who fell into a furious passion, and said: “Well, you have learned what it is to be very near death, and now will you say ‘To my good health’?”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	near	near	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
35	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
38	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	To	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | shepherd | Chamberlain |  |  |  | to the king | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | into a furious passion *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into passion=Result |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **learn** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | passion |  |  | death |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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