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title: “If you succeed in baking the bread you shall have my daughter to wi… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “If you succeed in baking the bread you shall have my daughter to wife, but if you fail your head will pay for it.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 18

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“If you succeed in baking the bread you shall have my daughter to wife, but if you fail your head will pay for it.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** succeed, bake, have, fail, pay · **To what, where:** bread, daughter, head

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg2435:13:18
# text = “If you succeed in baking the bread you shall have my daughter to wife, but if you fail your head will pay for it.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	succeed	succeed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	baking	bake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fail	fail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bake** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | the bread |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Product |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | you | my daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 4 | **fail** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | your head |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality |
| 5 | **pay** *in a quote* | future | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for head | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |

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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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