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title: “If the young couple does manage to escape the dangers of the bridge… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “If the young couple does manage to escape the dangers of the bridge and the carriage, the king means to send them each a splendid gold embroidered robe. Who acts: splendid gold. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 17

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“If the young couple does manage to escape the dangers of the bridge and the carriage, the king means to send them each a splendid gold embroidered robe.

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**Who acts:** splendid gold · **What happens:** manage, escape, mean, send, embroider · **To what, where:** king, dangers, robe · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (splendid gold), 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:pg2435:2:17
# text = “If the young couple does manage to escape the dangers of the bridge and the carriage, the king means to send them each a splendid gold embroidered robe.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	csubj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
21	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
29	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** *in a quote* | present · do-support |  | the king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **escape** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the dangers of the bridge and the carriage |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme danger=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **mean** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **send** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | dangers *= danger* |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination gold=Theme |
| 5 | **embroider** *in a quote* | participle | each splendid gold *not said here* | robe |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Product |

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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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