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title: He said: “O most enchanting sweetheart! it is the rule for the host… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He said: “O most enchanting sweetheart! it is the rule for the host to drink first and then the guest.” Who acts: prince, wine. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 25

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He said: “O most enchanting sweetheart! it is the rule for the host to drink first and then the guest.”

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**Who acts:** prince, wine · **What happens:** say, enchant, be, drink · **To what, where:** rule · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, wine), 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:pg3282:3:25
# text = He said: “O most enchanting sweetheart! it is the rule for the host to drink first and then the guest.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	8	case	_	_
6	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
7	enchanting	enchant	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **enchant** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | wine | the rule and the guest |  |  |  | of most enchanting sweetheart; for the host | tree rules |
| 4 | **drink** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | wine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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