--- title: 'I will tell him myself,' replied the king in wrath; 'he promised me… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'I will tell him myself,' replied the king in wrath; 'he promised me a wonder of beauty, he has sent me a skeleton! Who acts: I, king. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/73/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/) / 73 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 73 'I will tell him myself,' replied the king in wrath; 'he promised me a wonder of beauty, he has sent me a skeleton! **Who acts:** I, king · **What happens:** tell, reply, promise, send, wonder · **To what, where:** myself, king, wrath, wonder, me, skeleton · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:23:73 # text = 'I will tell him myself,' replied the king in wrath; 'he promised me a wonder of beauty, he has sent me a skeleton! 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 9 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 wrath wrath NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 wonder wonder NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 27 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 skeleton skeleton NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | I | | myself | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | | the king | | wrath | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | | 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | king | a wonder of beauty | me | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal wonder=Theme | | 4 | **send** | present · perfect | king | a skeleton | me | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination skeleton=Theme | | 5 | **wonder** | | | beauty | | | | | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/74/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/)