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title: ‘Well, then,’ said the man, ‘if you walk on farther along the seasho… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Well, then,’ said the man, ‘if you walk on farther along the seashore here, you will come to three princesses who are standing in the earth so that their heads alone are out of it. Who acts: you, three princesses, heads. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whi
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 14

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‘Well, then,’ said the man, ‘if you walk on farther along the seashore here, you will come to three princesses who are standing in the earth so that their heads alone are out of it.

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**Who acts:** you, three princesses, heads · **What happens:** say, walk, come, stand, be · **To what, where:** man, earth, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, three princesses, heads), 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:pg540:26:14
# text = ‘Well, then,’ said the man, ‘if you walk on farther along the seashore here, you will come to three princesses who are standing in the earth so that their heads alone are out of it.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	farther	farther	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	obl	_	_
17	along	along	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	seashore	seashore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
38	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
40	out	out	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 |  | the man |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 2 | **walk** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  | here |  | along the seashore | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on farther=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** | future | you |  |  |  |  | to three princesses | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to princess=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **stand** | present · progressive | three princesses |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in earth=Location |
| 5 | **is** | present | princesses's heads |  |  | head |  |  | 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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