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title: ‘Has the Count given his consent to our marriage?’ — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Has the Count given his consent to our marriage?’ Who acts: ‘, Count, our. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 74

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‘Has the Count given his consent to our marriage?’

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**Who acts:** ‘, Count, our · **What happens:** have, give, consent, marry · **To what, where:** Count, consent, marriage

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (‘, Count, our), 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:pg540:42:74
# text = ‘Has the Count given his consent to our marriage?’
1	‘	‘	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | ‘ | the Count |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent count=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | participle | the Count *not said here* | ‘'s consent | our marriage |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent consent=Theme to marriage=Recipient |
| 3 | **consent** |  | ‘ |  |  |  |  |  | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **marry** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state 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 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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