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title: ‘Ah! how dared you think to win my love by separating me from my bel… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Ah! how dared you think to win my love by separating me from my beloved Florimond, and in my presence cutting off that dear hand that even you should have feared and honoured?’ Who acts: you, presence, my. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1, with its depend
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 68

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‘Ah! how dared you think to win my love by separating me from my beloved Florimond, and in my presence cutting off that dear hand that even you should have feared and honoured?’

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**Who acts:** you, presence, my · **What happens:** dare, think, win, separate, cut off, fear · **To what, where:** love, me, dear hand, you

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (you, presence, my), 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:pg540:34:68
# text = ‘Ah! how dared you think to win my love by separating me from my beloved Florimond, and in my presence cutting off that dear hand that even you should have feared and honoured?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	dared	dare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	separating	separate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Florimond	Florimond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
24	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
27	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux	_	_
34	feared	fear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	honoured	honour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dare** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **win** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | my love |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality |
| 4 | **separate** | gerund | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | from my beloved Florimond | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient from florimond=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **cut off** | gerund | my presence *not said here* | that dear hand |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hand=Eventuality |
| 6 | **fear** | should · perfect · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **honour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **love** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling 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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