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title: ‘Now,’ said the king, ‘you must tell us as many undoubted truths as… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Now,’ said the king, ‘you must tell us as many undoubted truths as will fill that tub, or you can’t have the princess.’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 139

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‘Now,’ said the king, ‘you must tell us as many undoubted truths as will fill that tub, or you can’t have the princess.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** say, tell, fill, not have · **To what, where:** king, many undoubted truths, us, tub, princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg641:24:139
# text = ‘Now,’ said the king, ‘you must tell us as many undoubted truths as will fill that tub, or you can’t have the princess.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	undoubted	undoubted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	truths	truth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the king |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | must | you | many undoubted truths | us |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient truth=Topic |
| 3 | **fill** | future | you *not said here* | that tub |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tub=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **have** | can | you | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |

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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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