--- title: “Ah! no,” answered the young King; “if I don’t get in, it will be my… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Ah! no,” answered the young King; “if I don’t get in, it will be my certain destruction; I should have no peace night or day till I had seen what was in the room with my own eyes. Who acts: young King, death. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young King, death), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:41:20 # text = “Ah! no,” answered the young King; “if I don’t get in, it will be my certain destruction; I should have no peace night or day till I had seen what was in the room with my own eyes. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 2 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 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 10 det _ _ 9 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 16 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 18 in in ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 21 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 destruction destruction NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 30 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 32 det _ _ 31 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 till till SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 39 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 43 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 ccomp _ _ 44 with with ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 46 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the young King | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **get in** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | the young King *= king* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | death | my certain destruction | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | should | the young King *= king* | | | | night | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **see** *in a quote* | past · perfect | the young King *= king* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | past | | | | the room | | with my own eyes | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/41/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/41/21/) - ↑ back to [Trusty John](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/41/)