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title: The man, who loved her dearly, thought to himself, ‘Come! rather tha… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The man, who loved her dearly, thought to himself, ‘Come! rather than let your wife die you shall fetch her some rampion, no matter the cost.’ Who acts: man, wife, you. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 104

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The man, who loved her dearly, thought to himself, ‘Come! rather than let your wife die you shall fetch her some rampion, no matter the cost.’

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**Who acts:** man, wife, you · **What happens:** love, think, come, let, die, fetch · **To what, where:** dearly, house, rampion, wife

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wife, you), 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:pg540:41:104
# text = The man, who loved her dearly, thought to himself, ‘Come! rather than let your wife die you shall fetch her some rampion, no matter the cost.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	dearly	dearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
16	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	18	cc	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	rampion	rampion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | the man | wife's dearly |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dearly=Stimulus |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | participle | the man *not said here* |  | house |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **die** | present | your wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **fetch** | shall | you | some rampion | wife |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary rampion=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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