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title: ‘Madam, we fear that Rosette may be the cause of great misfortunes t… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Madam, we fear that Rosette may be the cause of great misfortunes to her brothers; they may even meet with their death through her; that is all we have been able to foresee about your dear little daughter. Who acts: Madam, Rosette, brothers, that. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 10

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‘Madam, we fear that Rosette may be the cause of great misfortunes to her brothers; they may even meet with their death through her; that is all we have been able to foresee about your dear little daughter.

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**Who acts:** Madam, Rosette, brothers, that · **What happens:** fear, be, meet, foresee, die · **To what, where:** cause · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madam, Rosette, brothers, 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:pg540:11:10
# text = ‘Madam, we fear that Rosette may be the cause of great misfortunes to her brothers; they may even meet with their death through her; that is all we have been able to foresee about your dear little daughter.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fear	fear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	Rosette	Rosette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	through	through	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
31	all	all	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
32	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	cop	_	_
35	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	foresee	foresee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	about	about	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
40	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | present | Madam |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | may | Rosette | the cause |  |  |  | of great misfortunes to Rosette's brothers | tree rules |
| 3 | **meet** | may | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | with brothers's death; through Rosette | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with death=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present · perfect | that |  |  |  |  | able, all *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **foresee** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about your dear little daughter | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **die** |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: 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 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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