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title: ‘Don’t cry, dear mother; we’ll manage to escape somehow, and will fl… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Don’t cry, dear mother; we’ll manage to escape somehow, and will fly for our lives.’ Who acts: you, we. 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 12

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‘Don’t cry, dear mother; we’ll manage to escape somehow, and will fly for our lives.’

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** not cry, manage, escape, fly · **To what, where:** dear mother

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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 (you, we), 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:pg540:41:12
# text = ‘Don’t cry, dear mother; we’ll manage to escape somehow, and will fly for our lives.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	cry	cry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	somehow	somehow	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cry** *speech: express* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | dear mother |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic |
| 2 | **manage** | future | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **escape** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | somehow *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fly** | future | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for our lives | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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