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title: “Has the king of Busan a great army?” asked King Archidej; “is his c… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Has the king of Busan a great army?” asked King Archidej; “is his country far off?” A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 28

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“Has the king of Busan a great army?” asked King Archidej; “is his country far off?”

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**What happens:** have, ask, be · **To what, where:** King, country · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2435:5:28
# text = “Has the king of Busan a great army?” asked King Archidej; “is his country far off?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Busan	Busan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	iobj	_	_
14	Archidej	Archidej	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
20	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	off	off	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | King |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | king's country |  |  |  | off *property* | 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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