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title: ‘I am sure you will not be less generous than the heathen king was,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I am sure you will not be less generous than the heathen king was, sire. Who acts: I, you, heathen king. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 73

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‘I am sure you will not be less generous than the heathen king was, sire.

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**Who acts:** I, you, heathen king · **What happens:** be, not be

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. 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, heathen king), 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:pg641:8:73
# text = ‘I am sure you will not be less generous than the heathen king was, sire.
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	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
9	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	heathen	heathen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	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 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | future | you |  |  |  |  | generous, less *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the heathen king |  |  |  |  | than sire | tree rules |

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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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