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title: ‘No, she would certainly be frightened,’ said Walter, ‘and how would… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘No, she would certainly be frightened,’ said Walter, ‘and how would it do for a girl to go wolf-hunting? Who acts: Walter, stone. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 24

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‘No, she would certainly be frightened,’ said Walter, ‘and how would it do for a girl to go wolf-hunting?

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**Who acts:** Walter, stone · **What happens:** frighten, say, do, go · **To what, where:** Jonas, wolf hunting · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Walter, stone), 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:pg3454:8:24
# text = ‘No, she would certainly be frightened,’ said Walter, ‘and how would it do for a girl to go wolf-hunting?
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
14	‘	‘	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten** | would · passive |  | Jonas |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Walter |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | would | stone |  |  |  |  | for a girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | stone *not said here* | wolf hunting |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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