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title: The sword clanked for the third time, and the king said angrily: “We… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The sword clanked for the third time, and the king said angrily: “Well, if you want him so much you can have him; only never let me see his face again.” Who acts: sword, you. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 30

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The sword clanked for the third time, and the king said angrily: “Well, if you want him so much you can have him; only never let me see his face again.”

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**Who acts:** sword, you · **What happens:** clank, say, want, have, not let, see · **To what, where:** sword, king, face · **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 (sword, you), 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:pg2435:7:30
# text = The sword clanked for the third time, and the king said angrily: “Well, if you want him so much you can have him; only never let me see his face again.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	clanked	clank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	again	again	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clank** | participle |  | the sword *not said here* |  |  | time |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the sword |  |  |  |  | angrily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | king |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | can | you | king |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the sword *= sword* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | the sword *= sword* *not said here* | king's face |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |

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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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