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title: “Well, perhaps, if you come back directly,” replied Helga, doubtfull… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well, perhaps, if you come back directly,” replied Helga, doubtfully; “but you must be very quick, or father will find out!” Who acts: you, Helga, father. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 113

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“Well, perhaps, if you come back directly,” replied Helga, doubtfully; “but you must be very quick, or father will find out!”

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**Who acts:** you, Helga, father · **What happens:** come back, reply, be, find out · **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 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Helga, father), 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:pg2435:33:113
# text = “Well, perhaps, if you come back directly,” replied Helga, doubtfully; “but you must be very quick, or father will find out!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	doubtfully	doubtfully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	parataxis	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | directly, perhaps *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: express* | past | Helga |  |  |  |  | doubtfully *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | must | you |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **find out** *in a quote* | future | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: 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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