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description: At last he said to the nobles and courtiers standing round: “I am determined to marry the Princess Helena, but how shall I do it?” Who acts: king, courtiers. 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 cl
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 36

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At last he said to the nobles and courtiers standing round: “I am determined to marry the Princess Helena, but how shall I do it?”

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**Who acts:** king, courtiers · **What happens:** say, stand, be, marry, do · **To what, where:** nobles, last, Princess Helena, Helena · **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: who acts (king, courtiers), 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:pg2435:5:36
# text = At last he said to the nobles and courtiers standing round: “I am determined to marry the Princess Helena, but how shall I do it?”
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	round	round	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Helena	Helena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | king |  | the nobles and courtiers | last |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to noble=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | courtiers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | king |  |  |  |  | determined *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **marry** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | the Princess Helena |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helena=Patient |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | shall | king | Helena |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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