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title: ‘Oh, in that case,’ she answered, ‘we had better go to Squirrel Isla… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh, in that case,’ she answered, ‘we had better go to Squirrel Island; it is lonely enough, and too far off for anyone to follow us there.’ Who acts: Princess, we, case. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 21

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‘Oh, in that case,’ she answered, ‘we had better go to Squirrel Island; it is lonely enough, and too far off for anyone to follow us there.’

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**Who acts:** Princess, we, case · **What happens:** answer, have, go, be, follow · **To what, where:** Squirrel Island, us

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, we, case), 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:pg540:4:21
# text = ‘Oh, in that case,’ she answered, ‘we had better go to Squirrel Island; it is lonely enough, and too far off for anyone to follow us there.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Squirrel	Squirrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
24	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	too	too	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
29	off	off	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	obl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	follow	follow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
34	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | we |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  | Squirrel Island |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | present | case |  |  |  |  | enough, lonely *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **follow** | to-infinitive |  | us |  | there |  | off *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |

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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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