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title: “Oh, don’t be cast down,” said she, “something is sure to happen”; a… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, don’t be cast down,” said she, “something is sure to happen”; and she ran down to the tower to consult the youth. Who acts: Sultan. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 87

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“Oh, don’t be cast down,” said she, “something is sure to happen”; and she ran down to the tower to consult the youth.

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**Who acts:** Sultan · **What happens:** not cast down, say, be, happen, run down, consult · **To what, where:** tower, youth · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan), 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:pg2435:7:87
# text = “Oh, don’t be cast down,” said she, “something is sure to happen”; and she ran down to the tower to consult the youth.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	consult	consult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cast down** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Sultan |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **happen** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Sultan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **run down** | past | Sultan |  |  | the tower |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tower=Destination |
| 6 | **consult** | to-infinitive | Sultan *not said here* | the youth |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme |

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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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