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title: ‘So what must be, must.’ — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘So what must be, must.’ A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 50

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‘So what must be, must.’

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 3. 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:pg540:39:50
# text = ‘So what must be, must.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	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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