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title: But the third time you must say, “Shame on you thus to smite the bel… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the third time you must say, “Shame on you thus to smite the beloved of mine heart. Who acts: third time, you. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 81

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But the third time you must say, “Shame on you thus to smite the beloved of mine heart.

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**Who acts:** third time, you · **What happens:** say, smite · **To what, where:** Shame, heart · **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 (third time, you), 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:pg540:45:81
# text = But the third time you must say, “Shame on you thus to smite the beloved of mine heart.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	smite	smite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	beloved	beloved	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | must | the third time | Shame |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shame=Topic |
| 2 | **smite** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you | the beloved of mine's heart |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer |

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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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