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title: But who is to give him the ten years’ service that is part of the pr… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But who is to give him the ten years’ service that is part of the price which the vanquished must pay?’ Who acts: service, ten years. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 30

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But who is to give him the ten years’ service that is part of the price which the vanquished must pay?’

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**Who acts:** service, ten years · **What happens:** be, vanquish, pay, service · **To what, where:** head, part, price

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (service, ten years), 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:pg641:38:30
# text = But who is to give him the ten years’ service that is part of the price which the vanquished must pay?’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	vanquished	vanquish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	pay	pay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  | head |  |  | give *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the ten years's service | part |  |  |  | of the price | tree rules |
| 3 | **vanquish** | participle · passive |  | the price |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pay** | must |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **service** |  | the ten years |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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