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title: 'You would not have had me leave them to die of hunger,' answered he… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'You would not have had me leave them to die of hunger,' answered he, 'or be swallowed up by the waves of the sea? Who acts: You, me, children, waves. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 98

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'You would not have had me leave them to die of hunger,' answered he, 'or be swallowed up by the waves of the sea?

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**Who acts:** You, me, children, waves · **What happens:** not have, leave, die, answer, swallow up, wave · **To what, where:** me, children, fisher, sea

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, me, children, waves), 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:pg3027:32:98
# text = 'You would not have had me leave them to die of hunger,' answered he, 'or be swallowed up by the waves of the sea?
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
16	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:agent	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | would · perfect | You | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive | me *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | fisher |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 5 | **swallow up** | infinitive · passive | the waves of the sea |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **wave** |  |  | the sea |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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