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title: “All that can be rightly asked will be royally bestowed,” was the ki… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “All that can be rightly asked will be royally bestowed,” was the king’s answer. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 20

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“All that can be rightly asked will be royally bestowed,” was the king’s answer.

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**What happens:** be, bestow · **To what, where:** All, answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2892:25:20
# text = “All that can be rightly asked will be royally bestowed,” was the king’s answer.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	rightly	rightly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	royally	royally	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	bestowed	bestow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | can |  |  |  |  |  | ask, rightly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bestow** *in a quote* | future · passive |  | All |  |  |  | royally *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** *speech: assert* | past |  | the king's answer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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