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title: Then the King said once more to the Lion: ‘You have deceived me agai… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the King said once more to the Lion: ‘You have deceived me again; they _are_ men, for they never once looked at the spinning-wheels.’ Who acts: King, You, wheels. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 39

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Then the King said once more to the Lion: ‘You have deceived me again; they \_are\_ men, for they never once looked at the spinning-wheels.’

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**Who acts:** King, You, wheels · **What happens:** say, deceive, be, look · **To what, where:** more, Lion, me, \_ men, wheels, spinning wheels · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, You, wheels), 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:pg7277:43:39
# text = Then the King said once more to the Lion: ‘You have deceived me again; they _are_ men, for they never once looked at the spinning-wheels.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	28	advmod	_	_
28	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	spinning	spinning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
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## 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 | more | the Lion |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent more=Topic to lion=Recipient |
| 2 | **deceive** | present · perfect | You | me |  |  | again |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | wheels *= wheel* | \_ men |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | participle · passive |  | wheels *= wheel* |  | the spinning wheels |  | once *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |

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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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