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title: ‘Wherefore, O Prince Ivan—my husband dear shalt thou be!—wherefore h… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Wherefore, O Prince Ivan—my husband dear shalt thou be!—wherefore hast thou come hither?’ Who acts: thou. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 59

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‘Wherefore, O Prince Ivan—my husband dear shalt thou be!—wherefore hast thou come hither?’

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** be, come

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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:pg540:13:59
# text = ‘Wherefore, O Prince Ivan—my husband dear shalt thou be!—wherefore hast thou come hither?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
11	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
13	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | hither, wherefore *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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