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title: “You are no friend of mine,” thought the king’s son, and in order to… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You are no friend of mine,” thought the king’s son, and in order to part company with him he pretended to be ill and declared himself unable to proceed on his journey. Who acts: You, friend, son. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, with its depend
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 47

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“You are no friend of mine,” thought the king’s son, and in order to part company with him he pretended to be ill and declared himself unable to proceed on his journey.

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**Who acts:** You, friend, son · **What happens:** be, think, pretend, declare, proceed, journey · **To what, where:** friend, son, part company, journey · **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 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, friend, son), 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:pg2435:37:47
# text = “You are no friend of mine,” thought the king’s son, and in order to part company with him he pretended to be ill and declared himself unable to proceed on his journey.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
18	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	fixed	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
31	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obj	_	_
32	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	proceed	proceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	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 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | You | no friend |  |  |  | of no friend *= friend* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | no friend | the king's son |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot son=Theme |
| 3 | **pretend** | past | son |  |  | part company with son |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | son *not said here* | son |  |  |  | unable *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute |
| 6 | **proceed** | to-infinitive | son *not said here* |  |  | son's journey |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **journey** |  | son |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act 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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