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title: The King had promised the man who dared to do this thing his daughte… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King had promised the man who dared to do this thing his daughter as wife, and she was the most beautiful maiden under the sun. There was also much treasure hid in the castle, guarded by evil spirits, which would then be free, and was sufficient to make a poor man more than rich. Who acts: King,
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 82

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The King had promised the man who dared to do this thing his daughter as wife, and she was the most beautiful maiden under the sun. There was also much treasure hid in the castle, guarded by evil spirits, which would then be free, and was sufficient to make a poor man more than rich.

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**Who acts:** King, man, wife, much treasure, evil spirits · **What happens:** promise, dare, do, be, hide, guard · **To what, where:** man, thing, sun., castle, poor man

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, man, wife, much treasure), 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:pg503:13:82
# text = The King had promised the man who dared to do this thing his daughter as wife, and she was the most beautiful maiden under the sun. There was also much treasure hid in the castle, guarded by evil spirits, which would then be free, and was sufficient to make a poor man more than rich.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
25	under	under	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
29	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
30	also	also	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
44	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
45	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	cop	_	_
47	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
51	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	csubj	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
57	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	53	advmod	_	_
58	than	than	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect | the King |  | the man |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 2 | **dare** | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* | this thing |  |  |  | as wife | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | wife |  |  | the sun. |  | maiden *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hide** | past | much treasure |  |  | the castle |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in castle=Location |
| 7 | **guard** | participle |  | the castle *not said here* |  |  |  | by evil spirits | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | would | evil spirits |  |  |  | then | free *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | past | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sufficient *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a poor man |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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