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title: King Alphege insisted on his brother sharing his throne, and they al… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: King Alphege insisted on his brother sharing his throne, and they all lived to a good old age, universally beloved and admired. Who acts: King, presents. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 43

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King Alphege insisted on his brother sharing his throne, and they all lived to a good old age, universally beloved and admired.

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**Who acts:** King, presents · **What happens:** insist, share, live, belov, admire · **To what, where:** throne

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, presents), 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:pg640:23:43
# text = King Alphege insisted on his brother sharing his throne, and they all lived to a good old age, universally beloved and admired.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Alphege	Alphege	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	insisted	insist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
14	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	universally	universally	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	beloved	belov	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	admired	admire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **insist** *speech: other* | past | King |  |  |  |  | on King's brother | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **share** | gerund | King *not said here* | King's throne |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | past | presents *= present* |  |  |  | to a good old age |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **belov** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | universally *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **admire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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