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title: “May all your wishes be as easily fulfilled, for I am Shepherd Paul,… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “May all your wishes be as easily fulfilled, for I am Shepherd Paul, and will wrestle with you at once,” and the sport began. Who acts: Stone, sport, your. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 35

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“May all your wishes be as easily fulfilled, for I am Shepherd Paul, and will wrestle with you at once,” and the sport began.

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**Who acts:** Stone, sport, your · **What happens:** fulfil, be, wrestle, begin, wish · **To what, where:** wishes

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stone, sport, 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:pg2435:31:35
# text = “May all your wishes be as easily fulfilled, for I am Shepherd Paul, and will wrestle with you at once,” and the sport began.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	Shepherd	Shepherd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	wrestle	wrestle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fulfil** *in a quote* | may · passive |  | your wishes |  |  |  | easily *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Stone |  |  |  |  | for Shepherd | tree rules |
| 3 | **wrestle** *in a quote* | future |  |  |  |  |  | with you | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **begin** | past | the sport |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **wish** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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