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title: If the king himself should enter, just say to him: ‘Here are three g… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If the king himself should enter, just say to him: ‘Here are three gifts I offer you in return for the services you demanded of me!’ and throw the tips of the serpent’s tongues at him, and hasten to the ship as fast as your legs will carry you. Who acts: king, you, three gifts, legs. A sentence of «
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 31

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If the king himself should enter, just say to him: ‘Here are three gifts I offer you in return for the services you demanded of me!’ and throw the tips of the serpent’s tongues at him, and hasten to the ship as fast as your legs will carry you.

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**Who acts:** king, you, three gifts, legs · **What happens:** enter, say, be, offer, demand, throw · **To what, where:** king, three gifts, you, return, services, tips · **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 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you, three gifts, legs), 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:pg3282:24:31
# text = If the king himself should enter, just say to him: ‘Here are three gifts I offer you in return for the services you demanded of me!’ and throw the tips of the serpent’s tongues at him, and hasten to the ship as fast as your legs will carry you.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’s	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	as	as	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	45	advmod	_	_
51	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
52	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nsubj	_	_
54	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	advcl	_	_
56	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | king |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | three gifts |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **offer** | present | three gifts | you |  | return |  | for the services *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent you=Theme for service=Goal |
| 5 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | you | the services *not said here* |  |  |  | of me | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Precondition |
| 6 | **throw** | infinitive | three gifts *not said here* | the tips of the serpent's tongues |  |  |  | at king | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tip=Theme at he=Destination |
| 7 | **hasten** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the ship |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ship=Destination |
| 8 | **carry** | future | your legs | you |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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