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title: “If one is missing I will have your head,” said she, and at that the… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “If one is missing I will have your head,” said she, and at that the young man drew the feather from his pocket and thrust it up her nose, crying “If you want your feather, here it is.” Who acts: one, ogress, young man, you. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Bo
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 54

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“If one is missing I will have your head,” said she, and at that the young man drew the feather from his pocket and thrust it up her nose, crying “If you want your feather, here it is.”

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**Who acts:** one, ogress, young man, you · **What happens:** be, have, say, draw up, cry, want · **To what, where:** head, feather, pocket · **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 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, ogress, young man, 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:pg2435:22:54
# text = “If one is missing I will have your head,” said she, and at that the young man drew the feather from his pocket and thrust it up her nose, crying “If you want your feather, here it is.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	fixed	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
36	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	_
40	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
43	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | one |  |  |  |  | missing *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | future | ogress | your head |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | ogress |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **draw up** | past | the young man | the feather |  | man's pocket and thrust |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | your feather |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot feather=Theme |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |

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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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