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title: Zengi-mizi,' he said, 'the king seems loth to grant my request for t… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Zengi-mizi,' he said, 'the king seems loth to grant my request for the Mirror--is there not some other thing of equal value for which I might ask?' Who acts: Zengi mizi, king, I, my. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 86

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Zengi-mizi,' he said, 'the king seems loth to grant my request for the Mirror--is there not some other thing of equal value for which I might ask?'

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**Who acts:** Zengi mizi, king, I, my · **What happens:** say, seem, grant, not be, ask, request · **To what, where:** request, other thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zengi mizi, king, I, my), 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:pg3027:2:86
# text = Zengi-mizi,' he said, 'the king seems loth to grant my request for the Mirror--is there not some other thing of equal value for which I might ask?'
1	Zengi	Zengi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	mizi	mizi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
13	loth	loth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Mirror	Mirror	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Zengi mizi |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seem** | present | the king |  |  |  |  | loth *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grant** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | my request |  |  |  | for the Mirror *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent request=Theme for mirror=Goal |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present |  | some other thing |  |  |  | of equal value | tree rules |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | might | I |  |  |  |  | for equal value | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **request** |  | my |  |  |  |  | for the Mirror | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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