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title: I will praise you so much to my father that he will marry me to you… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I will praise you so much to my father that he will marry me to you and make you the heir to the throne.’ Who acts: I, King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 41

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I will praise you so much to my father that he will marry me to you and make you the heir to the throne.’

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**Who acts:** I, King · **What happens:** praise, marry, make · **To what, where:** you, me, heir

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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:pg7277:46:41
# text = I will praise you so much to my father that he will marry me to you and make you the heir to the throne.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	praise	praise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	heir	heir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **praise** | future | I | you |  |  |  | to my father | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme to father=be' |
| 2 | **marry** | future | King | me | you |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient to you=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | King *not said here* | the heir | you |  |  | to the throne | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary heir=Product |

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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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