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title: ‘I will,’ says he, ‘but with your wooden legs you will soon be tired. — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I will,’ says he, ‘but with your wooden legs you will soon be tired. Who acts: Drakestail, you. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 16

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‘I will,’ says he, ‘but with your wooden legs you will soon be tired.

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**Who acts:** Drakestail, you · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drakestail, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg540:2359`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:31:16
# text = ‘I will,’ says he, ‘but with your wooden legs you will soon be tired.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Drakestail |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | future | you |  |  |  |  | with your wooden legs; soon, tired *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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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