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title: “The honour will be all the higher if we gain the day,” answered Ros… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “The honour will be all the higher if we gain the day,” answered Rosald; but Geirald would listen to nothing, and only declared that he did not care about honour, and would rather be alive than have every honour in the world heaped upon him. Who acts: honour, we, Rosald, Geirald. A sentence of «The 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 16

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“The honour will be all the higher if we gain the day,” answered Rosald; but Geirald would listen to nothing, and only declared that he did not care about honour, and would rather be alive than have every honour in the world heaped upon him.

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**Who acts:** honour, we, Rosald, Geirald · **What happens:** be, gain, answer, listen, declare, not care · **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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honour, we, Rosald, Geirald), 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:pg3282:13:16
# text = “The honour will be all the higher if we gain the day,” answered Rosald; but Geirald would listen to nothing, and only declared that he did not care about honour, and would rather be alive than have every honour in the world heaped upon him.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	nsubj	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gain	gain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
16	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
34	about	about	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
39	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	cop	_	_
41	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
42	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
43	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
44	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	45	det	_	_
45	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	heaped	heap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	ccomp	_	_
50	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | future | the honour |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **gain** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  | day |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Rosald |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **listen** | would | Geirald |  |  |  |  | to nothing | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to nothing=Theme |
| 5 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Geirald *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **care** | past · do-support | Geirald |  |  |  |  | about honour | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about honour=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is** | would | Geirald *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **have** | present | Geirald *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **heap** | past | every honour in the world |  |  |  |  | upon Geirald | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon he=Destination |

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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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