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title: ‘And what shall be done to your brother?’ asked the king, who was gl… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘And what shall be done to your brother?’ asked the king, who was glad to think that someone had acted in this matter worse than himself. Who acts: king, someone. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 59

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‘And what shall be done to your brother?’ asked the king, who was glad to think that someone had acted in this matter worse than himself.

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**Who acts:** king, someone · **What happens:** do, ask, be, think, act · **To what, where:** king, matter · **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 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, someone), 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:pg3454:22:59
# text = ‘And what shall be done to your brother?’ asked the king, who was glad to think that someone had acted in this matter worse than himself.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	acted	act	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	ccomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	xcomp	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | shall · passive |  |  |  |  |  | to your brother | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | the king |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **act** | past · perfect | someone |  |  | this matter |  | bad *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «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 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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