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title: “I will pretend to be dead, and you must change yourself into a man,… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I will pretend to be dead, and you must change yourself into a man, and take me to the village for sale. Who acts: thought, you. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 25

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“I will pretend to be dead, and you must change yourself into a man, and take me to the village for sale.

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**Who acts:** thought, you · **What happens:** pretend, be, change, take · **To what, where:** yourself, thought, village

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, 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:pg2435:32:25
# text = “I will pretend to be dead, and you must change yourself into a man, and take me to the village for sale.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** *in a quote* | future | thought |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | thought *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **change** *in a quote* | must | you | yourself |  |  |  | into a man *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient into man=Result |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | thought |  | the village |  | for sale | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to village=Destination |

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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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