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title: Greet your father King Kojata from me, and don’t forget to remind hi… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Greet your father King Kojata from me, and don’t forget to remind him of his debt; the time has long passed since it was due, but now he will have to pay it. Who acts: you, time, debt, KING. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 43

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Greet your father King Kojata from me, and don’t forget to remind him of his debt; the time has long passed since it was due, but now he will have to pay it.

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**Who acts:** you, time, debt, KING · **What happens:** greet, not forget, remind, pass, be, have · **To what, where:** father, KING, debt

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, time, debt, 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:pg7277:27:43
# text = Greet your father King Kojata from me, and don’t forget to remind him of his debt; the time has long passed since it was due, but now he will have to pay it.
1	Greet	greet	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	Kojata	Kojata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	forget	forget	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	remind	remind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
25	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | your father |  |  | from me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **forget** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **remind** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  | KING |  |  | of KING's debt | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of debt=Topic |
| 4 | **pass** | present · perfect | the time |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | debt |  |  |  |  | due *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | future | KING |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **pay** | to-infinitive | KING *not said here* | debt |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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