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title: Answer him thus: ‘’Your master, the King, has sent me to tell you th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Answer him thus: ‘’Your master, the King, has sent me to tell you that you must send him his golden garment that is like the sun.’’ Make him give you, besides, the queenly robes of gold and precious stones which are like the flowery meadows, and bring them both to me. Who acts: you, golden garment, 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 29

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Answer him thus: ‘’Your master, the King, has sent me to tell you that you must send him his golden garment that is like the sun.’’ Make him give you, besides, the queenly robes of gold and precious stones which are like the flowery meadows, and bring them both to me.

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**Who acts:** you, golden garment, man, queenly robes · **What happens:** answer, send, tell, be, make, give · **To what, where:** man, master, you, golden garment, meadows, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, golden garment, man, queenly robes), 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:pg640:7:29
# text = Answer him thus: ‘’Your master, the King, has sent me to tell you that you must send him his golden garment that is like the sun.’’ Make him give you, besides, the queenly robes of gold and precious stones which are like the flowery meadows, and bring them both to me.
1	Answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
5	‘’	‘'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’’	''	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	Make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	41	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	queenly	queenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
48	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
49	like	like	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	flowery	flowery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
56	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	_
57	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	55	obj	_	_
58	to	to	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | man |  |  | thus *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 2 | **send** | present · perfect · passive |  | Your master |  |  |  | the queenly robes of gold and precious stones and the flowery meadows *obl* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination i=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **send** *not said to happen* | must | you | man's golden garment | man |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination garment=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | man's golden garment |  |  |  |  | like the sun. | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **give** | infinitive | man *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | present | the queenly robes of gold and precious stones and the flowery meadows |  |  |  |  | like the flowery meadows | tree rules |
| 9 | **bring** | infinitive | you *not said here* | meadows *= meadow* | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination both=Theme |

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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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