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title: This one” (pointing to Labakan) “is my son, for it was he who brough… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This one” (pointing to Labakan) “is my son, for it was he who brought me the token from my friend Elfi—the dagger.” Who acts: one, matter, king. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 22

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This one” (pointing to Labakan) “is my son, for it was he who brought me the token from my friend Elfi—the dagger.”

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**Who acts:** one, matter, king · **What happens:** point, be, bring · **To what, where:** Labakan, son, token, me · **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 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, matter, king), 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:pg2435:35:22
# text = This one” (pointing to Labakan) “is my son, for it was he who brought me the token from my friend Elfi—the dagger.”
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	Elfi	Elfi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  | Labakan |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to labakan=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | this one | my son and the dagger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | matter |  |  |  |  | for king | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | past | king | the token | me |  |  | from my friend | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination token=Theme |

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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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