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title: 'I will not buy my life with faithlessness,' she said proudly; 'and… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'I will not buy my life with faithlessness,' she said proudly; 'and I will go with you this moment to the dragon's abode.' Who acts: I, Muffette. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 56

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'I will not buy my life with faithlessness,' she said proudly; 'and I will go with you this moment to the dragon's abode.'

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**Who acts:** I, Muffette · **What happens:** not buy, say, go · **To what, where:** life, abode · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Muffette), 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:pg3027:29:56
# text = 'I will not buy my life with faithlessness,' she said proudly; 'and I will go with you this moment to the dragon's abode.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	faithlessness	faithlessness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	abode	abode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **buy** | future | I | my life |  |  |  | with faithlessness | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Muffette |  |  |  |  | proudly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | future | I |  |  | the dragon's abode | moment | with you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to abode=Initial\_Location |

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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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