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title: ‘Make haste and kill all these insolent peacocks who have dared to i… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Make haste and kill all these insolent peacocks who have dared to insult me.’ Who acts: you, insolent peacocks. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 163

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‘Make haste and kill all these insolent peacocks who have dared to insult me.’

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**Who acts:** you, insolent peacocks · **What happens:** make, kill, dare, insult · **To what, where:** haste, insolent peacocks, me

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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 (you, insolent peacocks), 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:pg540:11:163
# text = ‘Make haste and kill all these insolent peacocks who have dared to insult me.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	insolent	insolent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	dared	dare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	insult	insult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | haste |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product |
| 2 | **kill** | infinitive | you *not said here* | all insolent peacocks |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peacock=Theme |
| 3 | **dare** | present · perfect | all insolent peacocks |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **insult** | to-infinitive | all insolent peacocks *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |

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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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