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title: ‘I will be called Minnikin,’ answered the second; ‘and you, what wil… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I will be called Minnikin,’ answered the second; ‘and you, what will you be called?’ A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 76

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‘I will be called Minnikin,’ answered the second; ‘and you, what will you be called?’

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**What happens:** call, answer · **To what, where:** I, second, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg540:44:76
# text = ‘I will be called Minnikin,’ answered the second; ‘and you, what will you be called?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
13	‘	‘	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | future · passive |  | I |  |  |  | you *obl* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  | the second |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent second=Eventuality |
| 3 | **call** | future · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result |

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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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