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title: I have a son--a wooer--as clever a youth and as good a son-in-law as… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I have a son--a wooer--as clever a youth and as good a son-in-law as you will find in your whole kingdom. Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 101

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I have a son--a wooer--as clever a youth and as good a son-in-law as you will find in your whole kingdom.

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** have, find · **To what, where:** son, law, whole kingdom

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. 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:pg640:33:101
# text = I have a son--a wooer--as clever a youth and as good a son-in-law as you will find in your whole kingdom.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wooer	wooer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | a son |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | future | you | a law *not said here* |  | your whole kingdom |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Topic |

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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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