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title: “A king’s ransom would hardly have procured all that my other daught… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “A king’s ransom would hardly have procured all that my other daughters asked.” he said: “but I thought that I might at least take Beauty her rose. Who acts: other daughters, danger, king. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 62

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“A king’s ransom would hardly have procured all that my other daughters asked.” he said: “but I thought that I might at least take Beauty her rose.

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**Who acts:** other daughters, danger, king · **What happens:** procure, ask, say, think, take, ransom · **To what, where:** ransom, that, Beauty, least · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other daughters, danger, king), 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:pg503:14:62
# text = “A king’s ransom would hardly have procured all that my other daughters asked.” he said: “but I thought that I might at least take Beauty her rose.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	ransom	ransom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
9	procured	procure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	ccomp	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	obl	_	_
30	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
31	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **procure** *in a quote* | would · perfect · passive |  | a king's ransom |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | my other daughters | that |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | danger |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | danger |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | might |  | Beauty |  | least |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument beauty=Theme rose=Destination |
| 6 | **ransom** *in a quote* |  | a king |  |  |  |  |  | nom ransom «possession transitive»: poss=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 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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