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title: ‘Since you will not marry anyone but the King of the Peacocks, we ar… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Since you will not marry anyone but the King of the Peacocks, we are going out together into the wide world to search for him. Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 65

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‘Since you will not marry anyone but the King of the Peacocks, we are going out together into the wide world to search for him.

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** not marry, go out, search · **To what, where:** anyone, wide world

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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:pg540:11:65
# text = ‘Since you will not marry anyone but the King of the Peacocks, we are going out together into the wide world to search for him.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Peacocks	peacock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	together	together	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **marry** | future | you | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient |
| 2 | **go out** | present · progressive | we |  |  | the wide world |  | together *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **search** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for person | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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