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title: Silver plates and gold dishes You shall have, and shall be The king… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Silver plates and gold dishes You shall have, and shall be The king of the fishes, When you’re married to me. Who acts: You. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 49

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Silver plates and gold dishes You shall have, and shall be The king of the fishes, When you’re married to me.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** have, be, marry · **To what, where:** gold dishes, king, you, me

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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:pg3454:18:49
# text = Silver plates and gold dishes You shall have, and shall be The king of the fishes, When you’re married to me.
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’re	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | shall | You | gold dishes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | shall |  | the king |  |  |  | of the fishes | tree rules |
| 3 | **marry** | present · passive |  | you | me |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to i=Co-Patient |

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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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