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title: ‘Then I shall die of grief,’ replied the Roe, ‘for when I hear that… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Then I shall die of grief,’ replied the Roe, ‘for when I hear that horn I feel as if I must jump right out of my skin.’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 69

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‘Then I shall die of grief,’ replied the Roe, ‘for when I hear that horn I feel as if I must jump right out of my skin.’

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** die, reply, hear, feel, jump · **To what, where:** Roe, horn, skin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg540:10:69
# text = ‘Then I shall die of grief,’ replied the Roe, ‘for when I hear that horn I feel as if I must jump right out of my skin.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Roe	Roe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
28	right	right	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | shall | I |  |  |  | then | of grief | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of grief=Causer |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | the Roe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | present | I | horn |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer horn=Stimulus |
| 4 | **feel** | present | I | horn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **jump** *a condition, not said to happen* | must | I |  |  | my skin |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out skin=Trajectory |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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