--- title: ‘Well,’ said the king at last, ‘the man who has done this is clevere… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Well,’ said the king at last, ‘the man who has done this is cleverer than most men, and if he will make himself known to me he shall marry the princess and govern half my kingdom while I am alive, and the whole of it when I am dead. Who acts: man, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:3:6 # text = ‘Well,’ said the king at last, ‘the man who has done this is cleverer than most men, and if he will make himself known to me he shall marry the princess and govern half my kingdom while I am alive, and the whole of it when I am dead. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 obj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 cleverer clever ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 parataxis _ _ 20 than than ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 22 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 29 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 28 obj _ _ 30 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 xcomp _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 parataxis _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 govern govern VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 40 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 42 det:predet _ _ 41 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 while while SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 44 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 46 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obl _ _ 53 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 56 advmod _ _ 54 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 55 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 56 cop _ _ 56 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the king | | last | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | | 2 | **do** | present · perfect | the man | this | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | present | the man | | | | | than most men; clever *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | Man | Man | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **know** | participle | Man *not said here* | | me | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **marry** | shall | Man | the princess | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | | 7 | **govern** | infinitive | Man *not said here* | my kingdom | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | | 8 | **is** | present | I | | | | | alive *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **is** | present | I | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/3/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/3/7/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/3/)