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title: The Sultan could not detect any difference between them, and he told… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sultan could not detect any difference between them, and he told his aunt that he would not be so cruel as to kill all three. Who acts: Sultan, other. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 113

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The Sultan could not detect any difference between them, and he told his aunt that he would not be so cruel as to kill all three.

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**Who acts:** Sultan, other · **What happens:** not detect, tell, not be, kill · **To what, where:** difference, aunt, three · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, other), 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:pg2435:7:113
# text = The Sultan could not detect any difference between them, and he told his aunt that he would not be so cruel as to kill all three.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	detect	detect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	iobj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **detect** | could | the Sultan | any difference |  |  |  | between brothers *= brother* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer difference=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | other |  | other's aunt |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent aunt=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **is** | would | other |  |  |  |  | cruel *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **kill** | to-infinitive | other *not said here* | all three |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme |

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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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