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title: “Then I swear that I _will_ bring the Terrible Head, if it may be br… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Then I swear that I _will_ bring the Terrible Head, if it may be brought by a living man. Who acts: King, living man. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 22

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“Then I swear that I \_will\_ bring the Terrible Head, if it may be brought by a living man.

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**Who acts:** King, living man · **What happens:** swear, bring · **To what, where:** Terrible Head, Head

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, living man), 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:pg503:27:22
# text = “Then I swear that I _will_ bring the Terrible Head, if it may be brought by a living man.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swear	swear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** *in a quote* | present | the King *= king* |  |  |  | then | that the King *= king* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | future | the King *= king* *not said here* | the Terrible Head |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | may · passive | a living man | Head |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent subject=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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