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title: ‘How will you be enough,’ asked the sultan, ‘to manage this horse an… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘How will you be enough,’ asked the sultan, ‘to manage this horse and all these clothes?’ Who acts: you, enough. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 70

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‘How will you be enough,’ asked the sultan, ‘to manage this horse and all these clothes?’

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**Who acts:** you, enough · **What happens:** be, ask, manage · **To what, where:** sultan, horse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, enough), 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:pg641:15:70
# text = ‘How will you be enough,’ asked the sultan, ‘to manage this horse and all these clothes?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | you |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | enough | the sultan |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **manage** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | this horse |  |  |  |  | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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