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title: At last, when he got his breath, Moti sent him off to bring his king… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, when he got his breath, Moti sent him off to bring his king, and to tell him that if he was reasonable his life should be spared. Who acts: officer, Moti. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 51

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At last, when he got his breath, Moti sent him off to bring his king, and to tell him that if he was reasonable his life should be spared.

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**Who acts:** officer, Moti · **What happens:** get, send off, bring, tell, be, spare · **To what, where:** breath, last, officer, king, reasonable life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (officer, Moti), 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:pg3454:16:51
# text = At last, when he got his breath, Moti sent him off to bring his king, and to tell him that if he was reasonable his life should be spared.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Moti	Moti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	spared	spare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | officer | officer's breath |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent breath=Theme at last=Asset |
| 2 | **send off** | past | Moti | officer |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | Moti *not said here* |  | officer's king |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument king=Destination |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | officer *not said here* |  | officer |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | officer |  |  |  |  | reasonable *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **spare** | should · passive |  | officer's reasonable life |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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