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title: Ritter Red has said that he will be able to set her free, but who kn… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ritter Red has said that he will be able to set her free, but who knows whether he will be able to do it? so you may easily imagine what grief and distress we are in here.’ Who acts: Ritter, you, we. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2, with its dependency tree an
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 4

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Ritter Red has said that he will be able to set her free, but who knows whether he will be able to do it? so you may easily imagine what grief and distress we are in here.’

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**Who acts:** Ritter, you, we · **What happens:** say, be, set, know, do, imagine · **To what, where:** Ritter, free, maid · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ritter, 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:pg540:45:4
# text = Ritter Red has said that he will be able to set her free, but who knows whether he will be able to do it? so you may easily imagine what grief and distress we are in here.’
1	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
32	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	33	nsubj	_	_
33	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | Ritter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | future | Ritter |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **set** | to-infinitive | Ritter *not said here* | daughter's free |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient free=Result |
| 4 | **know** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | future | Ritter |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | Ritter *not said here* | maid |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 7 | **imagine** | may | you |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 8 | **grief** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | present | we |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |

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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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