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title: The King said to the huntsmen, ‘See what sort of a wild beast is in… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King said to the huntsmen, ‘See what sort of a wild beast is in there.’ Who acts: King, sort. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 24

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The King said to the huntsmen, ‘See what sort of a wild beast is in there.’

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**Who acts:** King, sort · **What happens:** say, see, be, sort · **To what, where:** wild beast · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, sort), 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:pg7277:42:24
# text = The King said to the huntsmen, ‘See what sort of a wild beast is in there.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	See	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	11	det	_	_
11	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  |  |  |  | to the huntsmen | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to huntsman=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | what sort of a wild beast |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sort** |  |  | a wild beast |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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