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title: Then he asked his newly made son-in-law what dowry he would require… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he asked his newly made son-in-law what dowry he would require with his bride. Who acts: man, dowry. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 33

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Then he asked his newly made son-in-law what dowry he would require with his bride.

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**Who acts:** man, dowry · **What happens:** ask, make, require · **To what, where:** made law · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, dowry), 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:pg641:23:33
# text = Then he asked his newly made son-in-law what dowry he would require with his bride.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
5	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
13	dowry	dowry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | man | man's made law |  |  | then |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent law=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **require** | would | dowry |  |  |  |  | with man's bride | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Precondition |

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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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