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title: So she declared that she would starve herself to death if they did n… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So she declared that she would starve herself to death if they did not find some means of letting her see Fanfaronade’s grand entry into the town. Who acts: Princess, guards, some, Fanfaronade. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, with its dependency tr
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 46

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So she declared that she would starve herself to death if they did not find some means of letting her see Fanfaronade’s grand entry into the town.

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**Who acts:** Princess, guards, some, Fanfaronade · **What happens:** declare, starve, not find, mean, let, see · **To what, where:** Princess, grand entry, town · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (Princess, guards, some, Fanfaronade), 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:pg540:3:46
# text = So she declared that she would starve herself to death if they did not find some means of letting her see Fanfaronade’s grand entry into the town.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	starve	starve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	_
17	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	letting	let	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	ccomp	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	entry	entry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **starve** | would | Princess | Princess |  |  |  | to death | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | guards *= guard* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **let** | gerund |  | Princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | infinitive | Princess *not said here* | Fanfaronade's grand entry |  | the town |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer entry=Stimulus |
| 7 | **enter** |  | Fanfaronade |  |  |  |  |  | nom entry «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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