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title: As for me, I would die gladly if that could bring back our Prince to… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As for me, I would die gladly if that could bring back our Prince to reign justly and worthily once more.” Who acts: I, that. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 111

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As for me, I would die gladly if that could bring back our Prince to reign justly and worthily once more.”

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**Who acts:** I, that · **What happens:** die, bring back, reign · **To what, where:** Prince

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), 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:pg503:39:111
# text = As for me, I would die gladly if that could bring back our Prince to reign justly and worthily once more.”
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	reign	reign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	justly	justly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	worthily	worthily	ADV	RB	_	18	conj	_	_
21	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | would | I |  |  |  |  | as me; gladly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **bring back** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | that |  | our Prince |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument prince=Destination |
| 3 | **reign** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  | justly *property* | tree rules |

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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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