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title: “Once I am married to the king’s son I shall be better off than now. — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Once I am married to the king’s son I shall be better off than now. Who acts: witch. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 79

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“Once I am married to the king’s son I shall be better off than now.

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**Who acts:** witch · **What happens:** marry, be · **To what, where:** witch

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch), 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:pg3282:30:79
# text = “Once I am married to the king’s son I shall be better off than now.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the witch *= witch* |  |  |  | to the king's son | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to son=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | shall | the witch *= witch* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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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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