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title: Now all the request I ask of you is that you will build a tower in a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now all the request I ask of you is that you will build a tower in an island in the sea, wherein you will keep your three sons until they are come of age and fit to do for themselves; so that they may not be under the power or jurisdiction of any other woman. Who acts: I, you, sons. A sentence of «T
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 4

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Now all the request I ask of you is that you will build a tower in an island in the sea, wherein you will keep your three sons until they are come of age and fit to do for themselves; so that they may not be under the power or jurisdiction of any other woman.

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**Who acts:** I, you, sons · **What happens:** ask, be, keep, come, fit, do · **To what, where:** request, island, three sons, sons, power · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. 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, sons), 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:pg540:8:4
# text = Now all the request I ask of you is that you will build a tower in an island in the sea, wherein you will keep your three sons until they are come of age and fit to do for themselves; so that they may not be under the power or jurisdiction of any other woman.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
43	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	51	mark	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	fixed	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
46	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
47	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	cop	_	_
49	under	under	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
52	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	jurisdiction	jurisdiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	57	det	_	_
56	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | I | all request |  |  |  | of you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  | a island |  | in the sea; build *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | future | you | your three sons |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | present · passive |  | sons *= son* |  |  | of age |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **fit** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for sons *= son* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **is** | may | sons *= son* |  |  | the power or jurisdiction of any other woman |  |  | tree rules |

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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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