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title: Read this letter from the Sultan; you will see that if I fail to ans… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Read this letter from the Sultan; you will see that if I fail to answer his question about the foals, a dreadful war will be the result.” Who acts: you, I, dreadful war, prisoner. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 92

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Read this letter from the Sultan; you will see that if I fail to answer his question about the foals, a dreadful war will be the result.”

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**Who acts:** you, I, dreadful war, prisoner · **What happens:** read, see, fail, not answer, be, question · **To what, where:** letter, Sultan, question, result

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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 (you, I, dreadful war, prisoner), 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:pg2435:7:92
# text = Read this letter from the Sultan; you will see that if I fail to answer his question about the foals, a dreadful war will be the result.”
1	Read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fail	fail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	foals	foal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | imperative | you *not said here* | this letter |  | the Sultan |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent letter=Topic from sultan=Source |
| 2 | **see** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fail** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | prisoner's question |  |  |  | about the foals | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is a** | future | a dreadful war | the result |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **question** |  | prisoner |  |  |  |  | about the foals | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent about=obl |

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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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