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title: I want you to ask for the rent for those twelve years and also to fi… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I want you to ask for the rent for those twelve years and also to find out from him what has become of my twelve ships which sailed for his country three years ago.’ Who acts: I, you, twelve ships. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its d
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 82

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I want you to ask for the rent for those twelve years and also to find out from him what has become of my twelve ships which sailed for his country three years ago.’

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**Who acts:** I, you, twelve ships · **What happens:** want, ask, find out, become, sail · **To what, where:** you

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, twelve ships), 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:pg641:4:82
# text = I want you to ask for the rent for those twelve years and also to find out from him what has become of my twelve ships which sailed for his country three years ago.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rent	rent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	also	also	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | year | for the rent | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find out** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from Mark | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from he=Source |
| 4 | **become** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | of my twelve ships | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **sail** | past | my twelve ships |  |  |  |  | for Mark's country; ago *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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