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title: “This is what you must do to obtain the reward which the King promis… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “This is what you must do to obtain the reward which the King promises. Who acts: This, you, King. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 49

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“This is what you must do to obtain the reward which the King promises.

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**Who acts:** This, you, King · **What happens:** be, do, obtain, promise · **To what, where:** reward

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, you, 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:pg503:2:49
# text = “This is what you must do to obtain the reward which the King promises.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	promises	promise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | must | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **obtain** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the reward |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reward=Theme |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | present | the King | the reward |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent which=Theme |

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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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