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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 39

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This might have been all very well, had not Tiidu lived in dread that some day he would be asked to give proof of his marvellous swimming powers, and then everything would be found out.

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**Who acts:** Tiidu · **What happens:** be, have, live, ask, give, find out · **To what, where:** dread, Tiidu, proof, everything, marvellous swimming powers

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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:pg2435:11:39
# text = This might have been all very well, had not Tiidu lived in dread that some day he would be asked to give proof of his marvellous swimming powers, and then everything would be found out.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
27	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
33	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | all, well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | past | Tiidu |  |  | dread |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dread=Location |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | would · passive |  | Tiidu |  |  | day |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Tiidu *not said here* | proof of Tiidu's marvellous swimming powers |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proof=Theme |
| 6 | **find out** | would · passive |  | everything |  |  | then |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 7 | **proof** |  |  | Tiidu's marvellous swimming powers |  |  |  |  | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=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 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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