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title: The old knight who had charge of the castle said that in his opinion… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The old knight who had charge of the castle said that in his opinion it must have been some young knight, who had immediately set off to the king to claim the hand of the princess. Who acts: old knight, charge, knight. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, pa
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 70

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The old knight who had charge of the castle said that in his opinion it must have been some young knight, who had immediately set off to the king to claim the hand of the princess.

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**Who acts:** old knight, charge, knight · **What happens:** have, say, be, set off, claim, charge · **To what, where:** charge, young knight, hand, castle · **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 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old knight, charge, knight), 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:pg2435:30:70
# text = The old knight who had charge of the castle said that in his opinion it must have been some young knight, who had immediately set off to the king to claim the hand of the princess.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
20	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	claim	claim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the old knight | charge of the castle |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | must · perfect | charge | some young knight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **set off** | past · perfect · passive |  | some young knight |  |  |  | to the king; immediately *property* | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **claim** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | the hand of the princess |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hand=Topic |
| 6 | **charge** |  |  | the castle |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **opine** |  | knight |  |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition 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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