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title: Altogether you may say another hundred thousand, and there is a pick… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Altogether you may say another hundred thousand, and there is a picked body of heroes who reserve themselves for great occasions requiring particular courage.” Who acts: you, picked body, heroes, great occasions. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 34

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Altogether you may say another hundred thousand, and there is a picked body of heroes who reserve themselves for great occasions requiring particular courage.”

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**Who acts:** you, picked body, heroes, great occasions · **What happens:** say, be, pick, reserve, require · **To what, where:** hundred thousand, heroes, particular courage · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, picked body, heroes, great occasions), 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:pg2435:5:34
# text = Altogether you may say another hundred thousand, and there is a picked body of heroes who reserve themselves for great occasions requiring particular courage.”
1	Altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	_
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	reserve	reserve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	occasions	occasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	requiring	require	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | may | you | hundred thousand |  |  |  | altogether *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thousand=Topic |
| 2 | **be** | present | a picked body of heroes |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pick** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reserve** | present | heroes | heroes *= hero* |  |  |  | for great occasions | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme for occasion=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **require** | gerund | great occasions *not said here* | particular courage |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme courage=Precondition |

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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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