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title: “Leave that to me; I will manage him,” replied the wife, and at that… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Leave that to me; I will manage him,” replied the wife, and at that moment the turtle came in, and seized her by the wrist. Who acts: wife, turtle. 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 35

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“Leave that to me; I will manage him,” replied the wife, and at that moment the turtle came in, and seized her by the wrist.

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**Who acts:** wife, turtle · **What happens:** leave, manage, reply, come in, seize · **To what, where:** that, wife, turtle · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, turtle), 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:pg3282:12:35
# text = “Leave that to me; I will manage him,” replied the wife, and at that moment the turtle came in, and seized her by the wrist.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
13	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
24	in	in	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | that | the wife *= wife* |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Theme to i=Recipient |
| 2 | **manage** *in a quote* | future | the wife *= wife* | turtle |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come in** | past | the turtle |  |  |  | moment |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **seize** | past | the turtle *not said here* | wife |  |  |  | by the wrist | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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