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title: “Oh, we can’t turn back,” answered Rosald, “we should be ashamed to… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, we can’t turn back,” answered Rosald, “we should be ashamed to look anyone in the face again! Who acts: we, Rosald. 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 93

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“Oh, we can’t turn back,” answered Rosald, “we should be ashamed to look anyone in the face again!

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**Who acts:** we, Rosald · **What happens:** not turn back, answer, be, look · **To what, where:** anyone, face · **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 (we, Rosald), 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:pg3282:12:93
# text = “Oh, we can’t turn back,” answered Rosald, “we should be ashamed to look anyone in the face again!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **turn back** *in a quote* | can | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: express* | past | Rosald |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | should | we |  |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | anyone |  | the face | again |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anyone=Attribute |

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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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