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title: He is brother to the king of the oak windows, and sure will he be th… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He is brother to the king of the oak windows, and sure will he be that the king must be head, or the sword would not be in your hands.’ Who acts: king, sword. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 56

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He is brother to the king of the oak windows, and sure will he be that the king must be head, or the sword would not be in your hands.’

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**Who acts:** king, sword · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** brother, sure head, hands

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, sword), 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:pg3454:9:56
# text = He is brother to the king of the oak windows, and sure will he be that the king must be head, or the sword would not be in your hands.’
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
13	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | king | brother and sure head or your hands |  |  |  | to the king of the oak windows | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | must · future | king | sure head |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | would | the sword |  |  | your hands |  |  | tree rules |

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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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