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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 86

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This time he would not need to hide in the ship’s hold, but could hire the best cabin if he wished to, or even have a vessel all to himself.

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**Who acts:** Tiidu, time · **What happens:** not need, hide, hire, wish, have, hold · **To what, where:** time, hold, best cabin, vessel, Tiidu, ship

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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, time), 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:pg2435:11:86
# text = This time he would not need to hide in the ship’s hold, but could hire the best cabin if he wished to, or even have a vessel all to himself.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	hire	hire	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	cabin	cabin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	all	all	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | would | Tiidu | this time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | this time *not said here* |  |  | the ship's hold |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hold=Location |
| 3 | **hire** | could |  | the best cabin |  |  | time |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabin=Theme |
| 4 | **wish** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Tiidu |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **have** | infinitive |  | a vessel | Tiidu |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient |
| 6 | **hold** |  |  | the ship |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: poss=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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