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title: But the sooth-sayers and magicians whom he consulted as to the child… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the sooth-sayers and magicians whom he consulted as to the child’s future all said that until he was twenty-two years old he stood in danger of being injured by an enemy. Who acts: king, sooth sayers, enemy. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 108

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But the sooth-sayers and magicians whom he consulted as to the child’s future all said that until he was twenty-two years old he stood in danger of being injured by an enemy.

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**Who acts:** king, sooth sayers, enemy · **What happens:** consult, say, be, stand, injure · **To what, where:** sooth sayers, danger · **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 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, sooth sayers, enemy), 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:pg2435:34:108
# text = But the sooth-sayers and magicians whom he consulted as to the child’s future all said that until he was twenty-two years old he stood in danger of being injured by an enemy.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	sooth	sooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	sayers	sayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	magicians	magician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	consulted	consult	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
20	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
23	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	conj	_	_
26	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	injured	injure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consult** | past | king | the sooth sayers and magicians |  |  |  | as the child's future | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent whom=Theme as future=Value |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the sooth sayers and magicians |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | king |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | past | king |  |  | danger |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in danger=Location |
| 5 | **injure** | gerund · passive | a enemy | danger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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