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title: “But, my child, it is impossible for you to marry such a being,” exc… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “But, my child, it is impossible for you to marry such a being,” exclaimed the sultan. Who acts: you, sultan. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 116

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“But, my child, it is impossible for you to marry such a being,” exclaimed the sultan.

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**Who acts:** you, sultan · **What happens:** be, marry, exclaim · **To what, where:** a · **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 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sultan), 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:pg3282:22:116
# text = “But, my child, it is impossible for you to marry such a being,” exclaimed the sultan.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	expl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	csubj	_	_
14	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	15	det:predet	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	obj	_	_
16	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
19	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | my child *obl*; impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **marry** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you | a |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a=Patient |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the sultan |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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