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title: ‘First have I won one Princess and half the kingdom, and then the ot… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘First have I won one Princess and half the kingdom, and then the other Princess and the other half of the kingdom; and now, when I was just thinking that I would give you one of the Princesses and one of the halves of the kingdom, do you think you have any reason to give me such a blow?’ Who acts: 
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 60

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‘First have I won one Princess and half the kingdom, and then the other Princess and the other half of the kingdom; and now, when I was just thinking that I would give you one of the Princesses and one of the halves of the kingdom, do you think you have any reason to give me such a blow?’

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** have, win, think, give · **To what, where:** one Princess, one, you, reason, blow, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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:pg540:46:60
# text = ‘First have I won one Princess and half the kingdom, and then the other Princess and the other half of the kingdom; and now, when I was just thinking that I would give you one of the Princesses and one of the halves of the kingdom, do you think you have any reason to give me such a blow?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	17	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	33	mark	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	just	just	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	ccomp	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	iobj	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	conj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	halves	half	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
55	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	ccomp	_	_
57	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	58	det	_	_
58	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	60	mark	_	_
60	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	acl	_	_
61	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	60	iobj	_	_
62	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	64	det:predet	_	_
63	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **win** | past | I | one Princess and half kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | would | I | one of the Princesses | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient one=Theme |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | present | you | any reason |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient |
| 7 | **give** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | such blow | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient blow=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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