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title: If all the fields in my kingdom were as well cared for as this, ther… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If all the fields in my kingdom were as well cared for as this, there would be more bread than my people could eat.” Who acts: more bread. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 69

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If all the fields in my kingdom were as well cared for as this, there would be more bread than my people could eat.”

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**Who acts:** more bread · **What happens:** care, be · **To what, where:** fields

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more bread), 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:pg2435:4:69
# text = If all the fields in my kingdom were as well cared for as this, there would be more bread than my people could eat.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	cared	care	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **care** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | all fields in my kingdom |  |  |  | for this; well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | could · infinitive | more bread than my people |  |  |  |  | eat *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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