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title: ‘This is the man whom the child has twice chosen,’ said the chamberl… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘This is the man whom the child has twice chosen,’ said the chamberlain, signing to the Shifty Lad to kneel before the king. Who acts: This, man. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 22

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‘This is the man whom the child has twice chosen,’ said the chamberlain, signing to the Shifty Lad to kneel before the king.

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**Who acts:** This, man · **What happens:** be, choose, say, sign, kneel · **To what, where:** man, child, chamberlain, Shifty Lad · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, man), 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:pg3454:3:22
# text = ‘This is the man whom the child has twice chosen,’ said the chamberlain, signing to the Shifty Lad to kneel before the king.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
6	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
11	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	signing	sign	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Lad	Lad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	kneel	kneel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | the man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** | present · perfect · passive |  | the child |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary whom=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man | the chamberlain |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent chamberlain=Topic |
| 4 | **sign** | gerund | the man *not said here* |  | the Shifty Lad |  |  |  | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to lad=Recipient |
| 5 | **kneel** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* |  |  |  | before the king |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before king=Location |

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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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