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title: But ask your council to advise you what to do when you arrive—in one… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But ask your council to advise you what to do when you arrive—in one word, whether you will win the princess peacefully or by war?” Who acts: you, council. 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 clau
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 43

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But ask your council to advise you what to do when you arrive—in one word, whether you will win the princess peacefully or by war?”

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**Who acts:** you, council · **What happens:** ask, advise, do, arrive, win · **To what, where:** council, one word, you, princess

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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 (you, council), 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:pg2435:5:43
# text = But ask your council to advise you what to do when you arrive—in one word, whether you will win the princess peacefully or by war?”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	advise	advise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	arrive	arrive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | your council |  | one word |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent council=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **advise** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | your council *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **arrive** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **win** | future | you | the princess |  |  |  | peacefully *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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