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title: The king took as much as he had need of; then ordered the rest to be… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king took as much as he had need of; then ordered the rest to be returned to Don Giovanni, who refused to receive it, saying, ‘Tell his majesty I am much hurt at his proposal. Who acts: king, rest, Don. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, with its de
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 46

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The king took as much as he had need of; then ordered the rest to be returned to Don Giovanni, who refused to receive it, saying, ‘Tell his majesty I am much hurt at his proposal.

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**Who acts:** king, rest, Don · **What happens:** take, have, order, return, refuse, not receive · **To what, where:** much, need, rest, Don, majesty, I · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, rest, Don), 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:pg5615:39:46
# text = The king took as much as he had need of; then ordered the rest to be returned to Don Giovanni, who refused to receive it, saying, ‘Tell his majesty I am much hurt at his proposal.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	Giovanni	Giovanni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
37	much	much	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	ccomp	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	proposal	proposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the king | much |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | king | need |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient |
| 3 | **order** | past |  | the rest |  |  | then |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent rest=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **return** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | the rest *not said here* |  | Don |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: to don=Result |
| 5 | **refuse** | past | Don |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **receive** | to-infinitive | Don *not said here* | rest |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | Don's majesty |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent majesty=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 9 | **hurt** | present · passive |  | I |  | Don's proposal |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 10 | **propose** |  | Don |  |  |  |  |  | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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