--- title: ‘I am content, Fet-Fruners,’ replied the emperor, ‘and when I am dea… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I am content, Fet-Fruners,’ replied the emperor, ‘and when I am dead it is you who will sit upon my throne; for I have yet no son to come after me. Who acts: I, content. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, content), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:40:79 # text = ‘I am content, Fet-Fruners,’ replied the emperor, ‘and when I am dead it is you who will sit upon my throne; for I have yet no son to come after me. 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 cop _ _ 4 content content NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Fet Fet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Fruners Fruners PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 11 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ‘ NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 appos _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 25 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 parataxis _ _ 27 upon upon ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 for for SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 34 yet yet ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 36 det _ _ 36 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl _ _ 39 after after ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | I | content | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | content | the emperor | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent emperor=Topic | | 3 | **is** | present | I | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | content | you | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sit** | future | | | | my throne | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon throne=Location | | 6 | **have** | present | I | no son | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | | 7 | **come** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | no son *not said here* | | | after me | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/40/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/40/80/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/40/)