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title: We trust the king of this country may condescend to welcome us, and… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: We trust the king of this country may condescend to welcome us, and to let his servants take charge of our wares. Who acts: We, king, servants. 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 75

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We trust the king of this country may condescend to welcome us, and to let his servants take charge of our wares.

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**Who acts:** We, king, servants · **What happens:** trust, condescend, welcome, let, take, charge · **To what, where:** us, charge, wares

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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 (We, king, servants), 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:pg2435:5:75
# text = We trust the king of this country may condescend to welcome us, and to let his servants take charge of our wares.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	trust	trust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	condescend	condescend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	welcome	welcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	wares	ware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | present | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **condescend** | may | the king of this country |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **welcome** | to-infinitive | the king of this country *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | present | king's servants | charge of our wares |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme |
| 6 | **charge** |  |  | our wares |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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