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title: ‘Would to heaven she were standing here, and then you would be able… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Would to heaven she were standing here, and then you would be able to see!’ said the young King, and in an instant she was standing there. Who acts: Queen, you, young King. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 44

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‘Would to heaven she were standing here, and then you would be able to see!’ said the young King, and in an instant she was standing there.

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**Who acts:** Queen, you, young King · **What happens:** stand, be, see, say · **To what, where:** instant · **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 (Queen, you, young King), 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:pg540:26:44
# text = ‘Would to heaven she were standing here, and then you would be able to see!’ said the young King, and in an instant she was standing there.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	ccomp	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | would · progressive | Queen |  |  | here |  | to heaven | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would | you |  |  |  | then | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the young King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **stand** | past · progressive | Queen |  |  | a instant; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in instant=Location |

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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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