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title: At last his councillors said, ‘The King _must_ marry again, so that… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last his councillors said, ‘The King _must_ marry again, so that we may have a queen.’ Who acts: last councillors, King _, we. 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 6

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At last his councillors said, ‘The King \_must\_ marry again, so that we may have a queen.’

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**Who acts:** last councillors, King \_, we · **What happens:** say, marry, have · **To what, where:** queen · **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 (last councillors, King \_, we), 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:pg7277:42:6
# text = At last his councillors said, ‘The King _must_ marry again, so that we may have a queen.’
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	councillors	councillor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
13	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	20	mark	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	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 | King's last councillors |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **marry** | must | the King \_ |  |  |  | again |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | may | we | a queen |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=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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