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title: ‘Farewell, then,’ answered the king; ‘I will not forget that promise… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Farewell, then,’ answered the king; ‘I will not forget that promise,’ and on he went, and on, and on, till he reached a tall cliff with many sticks lying about. Who acts: I, king, many sticks. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tre
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 79

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‘Farewell, then,’ answered the king; ‘I will not forget that promise,’ and on he went, and on, and on, till he reached a tall cliff with many sticks lying about.

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**Who acts:** I, king, many sticks · **What happens:** answer, not forget, go, reach, lie · **To what, where:** king, promise, tall cliff · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, king, many sticks), 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:pg3454:9:79
# text = ‘Farewell, then,’ answered the king; ‘I will not forget that promise,’ and on he went, and on, and on, till he reached a tall cliff with many sticks lying about.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Farewell	farewell	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
7	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	on	on	ADV	RB	_	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	on	on	ADV	RB	_	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
40	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	acl	_	_
41	about	about	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the king |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **forget** | future | I | that promise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **reach** | past | king | a tall cliff |  |  |  | with many sticks | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cliff=Theme |
| 5 | **lie** | gerund | many sticks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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