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title: The King replied, ‘Then both your heads must be staked, and your hea… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King replied, ‘Then both your heads must be staked, and your head and his must be guaranteed for the winner.’ Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 27

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The King replied, ‘Then both your heads must be staked, and your head and his must be guaranteed for the winner.’

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** reply, stake, guarantee · **To what, where:** heads, head

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg640:19:27
# text = The King replied, ‘Then both your heads must be staked, and your head and his must be guaranteed for the winner.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
7	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	staked	stake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	guaranteed	guarantee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	winner	winner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stake** | must · passive |  | your heads |  |  | then |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **guarantee** | must · passive |  | your head |  |  |  | for the winner | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for winner=Beneficiary |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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