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title: So even if the Count had really wished to marry Renelde, she would a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So even if the Count had really wished to marry Renelde, she would always have refused. Who acts: Renelde. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 26

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So even if the Count had really wished to marry Renelde, she would always have refused.

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**Who acts:** Renelde · **What happens:** wish, marry, refuse · **To what, where:** Count, Renelde

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Renelde), 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:pg540:42:26
# text = So even if the Count had really wished to marry Renelde, she would always have refused.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	Renelde	Renelde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	refused	refuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Count |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **marry** | to-infinitive |  | Renelde |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent renelde=Patient |
| 3 | **refuse** | would · perfect | Renelde | Renelde *not said here* |  |  |  | always *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent renelde=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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