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title: I am the daughter of the king you are going to serve, who hates your… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I am the daughter of the king you are going to serve, who hates your father and made you gamble in order to cause your ruin.’ Who acts: I, you, daughter, your. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 19

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I am the daughter of the king you are going to serve, who hates your father and made you gamble in order to cause your ruin.’

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**Who acts:** I, you, daughter, your · **What happens:** be, go, serve, hate, make, gamble · **To what, where:** daughter, king, father, order, ruin

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. 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, daughter, your), 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:pg641:42:19
# text = I am the daughter of the king you are going to serve, who hates your father and made you gamble in order to cause your ruin.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hates	hate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	gamble	gamble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | the daughter |  |  |  | of the king | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | present · progressive | you | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **serve** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hate** | present | the daughter | your father |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus |
| 5 | **make** | past | the daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **gamble** | present | you |  |  | order |  |  | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **cause** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your ruin |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition ruin=Patient |
| 8 | **ruin** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom ruin «state 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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