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title: ‘he said, ‘if there is no dinner I cannot dine, but take care that p… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘he said, ‘if there is no dinner I cannot dine, but take care that plenty of things are roasted for supper.’ Who acts: Frisk, 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 238

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‘he said, ‘if there is no dinner I cannot dine, but take care that plenty of things are roasted for supper.’

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**Who acts:** Frisk, I · **What happens:** say, be, not dine, take, roast · **To what, where:** dinner, care, plenty · **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 (Frisk, 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:pg540:11:238
# text = ‘he said, ‘if there is no dinner I cannot dine, but take care that plenty of things are roasted for supper.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	dine	dine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
18	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
20	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	roasted	roast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Frisk |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | no dinner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **dine** | can | I | no dinner *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive |  | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 5 | **roast** | present · passive |  | plenty of things |  |  |  | for supper | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary that=Patient |

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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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