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title: I said: ‘Oh my son! if there must be fruit of this fancy of yours, I… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I said: ‘Oh my son! if there must be fruit of this fancy of yours, I will lead forth a great army against King Quimus. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 66

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I said: ‘Oh my son! if there must be fruit of this fancy of yours, I will lead forth a great army against King Quimus.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** say, be, lead, fancy · **To what, where:** fruit, great army, yours · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg3282:1:66
# text = I said: ‘Oh my son! if there must be fruit of this fancy of yours, I will lead forth a great army against King Quimus.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
23	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	against	against	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Quimus	Quimus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive |  | fruit |  |  |  | of this fancy of yours | tree rules |
| 3 | **lead** | future | I | a great army |  |  |  | against King Quimus; forth *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme against quimus=Destination |
| 4 | **fancy** |  |  | yours |  |  |  |  | nom fancy «cognition 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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