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title: ‘Qui vivra verra: Le voilà, Le preneur des rats.’ — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Qui vivra verra: Le voilà, Le preneur des rats.’ A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 10

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‘Qui vivra verra: Le voilà, Le preneur des rats.’

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg540:32:10
# text = ‘Qui vivra verra: Le voilà, Le preneur des rats.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Qui	Qui	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	compound	_	_
3	vivra	vivra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	verra	verra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	voilà	voilà	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	Le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
10	preneur	preneur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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