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title: “In God’s name! if anyone else had said that to me I should have cut… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “In God’s name! if anyone else had said that to me I should have cut off his head instantly.” Who acts: God. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 11

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“In God’s name! if anyone else had said that to me I should have cut off his head instantly.”

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** say, cut off, name · **To what, where:** anyone, king, name · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God), 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:pg3282:5:11
# text = “In God’s name! if anyone else had said that to me I should have cut off his head instantly.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	else	else	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	ccomp	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect · passive |  | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **cut off** *in a quote* | should · perfect · passive |  | the king *= king* |  | God's name |  | instantly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** *in a quote* |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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