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title: 'And,' added he, 'the man who brings it to me shall wed my daughter,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'And,' added he, 'the man who brings it to me shall wed my daughter, and shall inherit my throne.' Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 37

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'And,' added he, 'the man who brings it to me shall wed my daughter, and shall inherit my throne.'

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** add, bring, wed, inherit · **To what, where:** king, happiness, me, daughter, throne

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg3027:17:37
# text = 'And,' added he, 'the man who brings it to me shall wed my daughter, and shall inherit my throne.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	wed	wed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	inherit	inherit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past |  | king |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **bring** | present | the man | happiness | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Destination |
| 3 | **wed** | shall | the man | my daughter |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 4 | **inherit** | shall |  | my throne |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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