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title: 'And be sure you tell him,' added she, 'that the marriage cannot be… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'And be sure you tell him,' added she, 'that the marriage cannot be celebrated till she is fifteen years old, or else some terrible misfortune will happen to the child.' Who acts: you, princess, terrible misfortune. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its dep
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 92

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'And be sure you tell him,' added she, 'that the marriage cannot be celebrated till she is fifteen years old, or else some terrible misfortune will happen to the child.'

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**Who acts:** you, princess, terrible misfortune · **What happens:** be, tell, add, not celebrate, happen · **To what, where:** news, princess, marriage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, princess, terrible misfortune), 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:pg3027:22:92
# text = 'And be sure you tell him,' added she, 'that the marriage cannot be celebrated till she is fifteen years old, or else some terrible misfortune will happen to the child.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	else	else	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
30	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
31	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you |  | news |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | you *not said here* | princess |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **celebrate** | can · passive |  | the marriage |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | princess |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **happen** | future | some terrible misfortune |  |  |  |  | to the child; else *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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