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title: 'I would give half my kingdom to the man who will bring her to me,'… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'I would give half my kingdom to the man who will bring her to me,' cried the king, eagerly. ' Who acts: I, man. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 110

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'I would give half my kingdom to the man who will bring her to me,' cried the king, eagerly. '

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**Who acts:** I, man · **What happens:** give, bring, cry · **To what, where:** kingdom, man, majesty, me, king

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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:pg3027:31:110
# text = 'I would give half my kingdom to the man who will bring her to me,' cried the king, eagerly. '
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
19	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | would | I | my kingdom | the man |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme to man=Recipient |
| 2 | **bring** | future | the man | majesty | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to i=Destination |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | I *not said here* | the king |  |  |  | eagerly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic |

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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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