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title: “You would have slept till eternity if I had not been here to waken… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You would have slept till eternity if I had not been here to waken you,” answered the prince. Who acts: You, prince. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 74

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“You would have slept till eternity if I had not been here to waken you,” answered the prince.

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**Who acts:** You, prince · **What happens:** sleep, not be, waken, answer · **To what, where:** you · **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 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, prince), 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:pg2435:19:74
# text = “You would have slept till eternity if I had not been here to waken you,” answered the prince.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
6	till	till	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	eternity	eternity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	waken	waken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
19	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** *in a quote* | would · perfect | You |  |  |  | till eternity |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **waken** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | the prince *= prince* | you |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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