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title: ‘I am the person you want,’ they all exclaimed at once, and the atte… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I am the person you want,’ they all exclaimed at once, and the attendant, as much bewildered as the chamberlain had been, desired them to follow him into the king’s presence. Who acts: I, you, person. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, with its depend
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 9

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‘I am the person you want,’ they all exclaimed at once, and the attendant, as much bewildered as the chamberlain had been, desired them to follow him into the king’s presence.

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**Who acts:** I, you, person · **What happens:** be, want, exclaim, bewilder, desire, follow · **To what, where:** person, attendant, Man, presence

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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 (I, you, person), 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:pg3454:3:9
# text = ‘I am the person you want,’ they all exclaimed at once, and the attendant, as much bewildered as the chamberlain had been, desired them to follow him into the king’s presence.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	attendant	attendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	much	much	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
29	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’s	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | the person and the attendant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | present | you | the person and the attendant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot person=Theme |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | participle · passive |  | person |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **bewilder** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the chamberlain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **desire** | past | the person and the attendant | attendant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **follow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the person and the attendant *not said here* | Man |  | the king's presence |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme into presence=Trajectory |

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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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