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title: “Besides, think how glorious it will be if we DO manage to kill him! — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Besides, think how glorious it will be if we DO manage to kill him! Who acts: you, it. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 117

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“Besides, think how glorious it will be if we DO manage to kill him!

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**Who acts:** you, it · **What happens:** think, be, kill · **To what, where:** Rosald

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, it), 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:pg3282:12:117
# text = “Besides, think how glorious it will be if we DO manage to kill him!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	DO	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | glorious *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future · do-support | it |  |  |  |  | manage *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **kill** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | Rosald |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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