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title: “I have followed you from the harbour,” answered he, “and have been… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have followed you from the harbour,” answered he, “and have been often in sore dread lest my strength should fail me. Who acts: Tiidu. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 31

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“I have followed you from the harbour,” answered he, “and have been often in sore dread lest my strength should fail me.

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**Who acts:** Tiidu · **What happens:** follow, answer, be, fail · **To what, where:** I, harbour, sore dread, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu), 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:pg2435:11:31
# text = “I have followed you from the harbour,” answered he, “and have been often in sore dread lest my strength should fail me.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | I |  | the harbour |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme you=Attribute |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect |  |  |  | sore dread lest my strength |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fail** *in a quote* | should | Tiidu | me |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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