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title: “The first man who brings it to me from my daughter’s room,” cried h… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “The first man who brings it to me from my daughter’s room,” cried he, “shall not only have her to wife, but after my death shall reign in my stead.” Who acts: first man, my. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 71

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“The first man who brings it to me from my daughter’s room,” cried he, “shall not only have her to wife, but after my death shall reign in my stead.”

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**Who acts:** first man, my · **What happens:** bring, cry, not have, reign, die · **To what, where:** sword, me, room, king, daughter, stead · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first man, 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:pg3282:18:71
# text = “The first man who brings it to me from my daughter’s room,” cried he, “shall not only have her to wife, but after my death shall reign in my stead.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
17	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	after	after	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
33	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	reign	reign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	stead	stead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | present | the first man | sword | me | my daughter's room |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Destination from room=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | king |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | shall |  | daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 4 | **reign** *in a quote* | shall |  |  |  | my stead | after my death |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **die** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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