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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 81

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The following year the Sultan again wanted to pick a quarrel with the king of the Magyars, so he sent another messenger to him with three foals, begging him to say which of the animals was born in the morning, which at noon, and which in the evening.

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**Who acts:** Sultan, father · **What happens:** follow, want, pick, send, beg, say · **To what, where:** quarrel, messenger, father, animals · **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, father), 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:pg2435:7:81
# text = The following year the Sultan again wanted to pick a quarrel with the king of the Magyars, so he sent another messenger to him with three foals, begging him to say which of the animals was born in the morning, which at noon, and which in the evening.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Magyars	Magyar	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	foals	foal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	ccomp	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
49	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **want** | past | the Sultan |  |  |  | again; evening; year |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **pick** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Sultan *not said here* | a quarrel |  |  |  | with the king of the Magyars | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Patient |
| 4 | **send** | past | father | another messenger | messenger |  |  | with three foals | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to he=Destination |
| 5 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | father *not said here* |  | father |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **bear** | past · passive |  | the animals |  |  | morning |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary which=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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