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title: “I have brought you such a nice present,” he said to his daughters,… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have brought you such a nice present,” he said to his daughters, and as the boy was very pretty they were delighted to have him and gave him all their best toys. Who acts: king, boy. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree an
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 3

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“I have brought you such a nice present,” he said to his daughters, and as the boy was very pretty they were delighted to have him and gave him all their best toys.

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**Who acts:** king, boy · **What happens:** bring, say, be, have, give · **To what, where:** daughters, king, best toys · **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 (king, boy), 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:pg2435:7:3
# text = “I have brought you such a nice present,” he said to his daughters, and as the boy was very pretty they were delighted to have him and gave him all their best toys.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	_
34	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	37	amod	_	_
37	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect | king |  | king's daughters *= daughter* |  |  | such nice present *obl:unmarked* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king |  | king's daughters |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  | delighted, pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | to-infinitive | the boy *not said here* | king |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 5 | **give** | past | king *not said here* | daughters's best toys | king |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient toy=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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