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title: At dessert the King asked Jenik’s father to give him the young man f… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At dessert the King asked Jenik’s father to give him the young man for a son-in-law. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 49

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At dessert the King asked Jenik’s father to give him the young man for a son-in-law.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** ask, give · **To what, where:** father, dessert, young man, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg7277:8:49
# text = At dessert the King asked Jenik’s father to give him the young man for a son-in-law.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	dessert	dessert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Jenik	Jenik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the King |  | Jenik's father | dessert |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the young man | king |  |  | for a law | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient man=Theme for law=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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