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title: ‘I am going to the Serpent King to receive twelve years’ rent from h… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I am going to the Serpent King to receive twelve years’ rent from him.’ Who acts: I, twelve years. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 90

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‘I am going to the Serpent King to receive twelve years’ rent from him.’

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**Who acts:** I, twelve years · **What happens:** go, receive, rent · **To what, where:** rent

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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, twelve 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:pg641:4:90
# text = ‘I am going to the Serpent King to receive twelve years’ rent from him.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Serpent	Serpent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
11	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	rent	rent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  | to the Serpent King | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **receive** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | twelve years's rent |  |  |  | from King | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rent=Theme from he=Source |
| 3 | **rent** |  | twelve years |  |  |  |  |  | nom rent «possession 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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