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title: Good old man, do save me, or I shall die of cold and hunger!’ — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Good old man, do save me, or I shall die of cold and hunger!’ Who acts: Good old man, I. 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 217

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Good old man, do save me, or I shall die of cold and hunger!’

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**Who acts:** Good old man, I · **What happens:** save, die · **To what, where:** 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 (Good old man, 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:pg540:11:217
# text = Good old man, do save me, or I shall die of cold and hunger!’
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | infinitive · do-support | Good old man | me |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **die** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | of cold and hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of cold=Causer |

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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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