--- title: “Though I was still deadly cold with terror I plucked up my courage… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Though I was still deadly cold with terror I plucked up my courage and said: ‘Get away from me, evil spirit; I do not desire your treasures.’ Who acts: I, your. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:15:77 # text = “Though I was still deadly cold with terror I plucked up my courage and said: ‘Get away from me, evil spirit; I do not desire your treasures.’ 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Though though SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 still still ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 deadly deadly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 plucked pluck VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 20 away away ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 desire desire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 31 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 treasures treasure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | I | | | | still | with terror; cold *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **pluck up** *in a quote* | past | I | my courage | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **get away** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | from me; away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from i=Source | | 5 | **not** **desire** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I | your treasures | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot treasure=Theme | | 6 | **treasure** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/78/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/)