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title: But Martin’s mother answered boldly: ‘If the King will only listen p… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Martin’s mother answered boldly: ‘If the King will only listen patiently to me, and give me a straightforward answer, he will see that I am not out of my mind. Who acts: mother, King, I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 99

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But Martin’s mother answered boldly: ‘If the King will only listen patiently to me, and give me a straightforward answer, he will see that I am not out of my mind.

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**Who acts:** mother, King, I · **What happens:** answer, listen, give, see, not be · **To what, where:** me, straightforward answer, mind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (mother, King, I), 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:pg640:33:99
# text = But Martin’s mother answered boldly: ‘If the King will only listen patiently to me, and give me a straightforward answer, he will see that I am not out of my mind.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
15	patiently	patiently	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	straightforward	straightforward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
31	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Martin's mother |  |  |  |  | boldly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **listen** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | the King |  | me |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive | the King *not said here* | a straightforward answer | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient answer=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | future | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **is** | present | I |  |  | my mind |  |  | 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 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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