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title: For I am told that, far away, across many seas, is the great kingdom… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For I am told that, far away, across many seas, is the great kingdom of the Island of Busan, and that the daughter of the king is the beautiful Princess Helena.” Who acts: I, that, daughter. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tr
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 21

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For I am told that, far away, across many seas, is the great kingdom of the Island of Busan, and that the daughter of the king is the beautiful Princess Helena.”

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**Who acts:** I, that, daughter · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** many seas, great kingdom, beautiful Princess Helena

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that, daughter), 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:pg2435:5:21
# text = For I am told that, far away, across many seas, is the great kingdom of the Island of Busan, and that the daughter of the king is the beautiful Princess Helena.”
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	told	told	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	across	across	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Busan	Busan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Helena	Helena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  | many seas |  | for that; away *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | the great kingdom |  |  |  | of the Island of Busan | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the daughter of the king | the beautiful Princess Helena |  |  |  |  | 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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