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title: If she were to know any peace of mind, there was nothing for it but… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If she were to know any peace of mind, there was nothing for it but that her husband should climb over the garden wall again, and fetch her some more. Who acts: wife, nothing, husband. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 107

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If she were to know any peace of mind, there was nothing for it but that her husband should climb over the garden wall again, and fetch her some more.

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**Who acts:** wife, nothing, husband · **What happens:** know, be, climb, fetch, pacify · **To what, where:** peace, garden wall, more, wife, mind

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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 (wife, nothing, husband), 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:pg540:41:107
# text = If she were to know any peace of mind, there was nothing for it but that her husband should climb over the garden wall again, and fetch her some more.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | wife | any peace of mind |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer peace=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** | past | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **climb** | should | wife's husband |  |  | the garden wall | again |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wall=Trajectory |
| 4 | **fetch** | infinitive | wife's husband *not said here* | some more | wife |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent her=Beneficiary more=Theme |
| 5 | **pacify** |  |  | mind |  |  |  |  | nom peace «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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