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title: If you will indeed be my friend, I shall not be afraid of that wicke… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If you will indeed be my friend, I shall not be afraid of that wicked old Duchess any more.’ Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 69

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If you will indeed be my friend, I shall not be afraid of that wicked old Duchess any more.’

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** friend

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:pg540:23:69
# text = If you will indeed be my friend, I shall not be afraid of that wicked old Duchess any more.’
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
16	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	any	any	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | my friend |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | of wicked old Duchess; afraid *property* | tree rules |

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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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