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title: You are going to have one daughter of mine, but if you can set free… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You are going to have one daughter of mine, but if you can set free the other, who has been taken by the Troll, you shall willingly have her too, and the other half of the kingdom as well.’ Who acts: You, Troll. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2, with its depend
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 98

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You are going to have one daughter of mine, but if you can set free the other, who has been taken by the Troll, you shall willingly have her too, and the other half of the kingdom as well.’

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**Who acts:** You, Troll · **What happens:** go, have, set, take · **To what, where:** one daughter, daughter

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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 (You, Troll), 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:pg540:45:98
# text = You are going to have one daughter of mine, but if you can set free the other, who has been taken by the Troll, you shall willingly have her too, and the other half of the kingdom as well.’
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
16	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	too	too	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	3	parataxis	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	3	advmod	_	_
43	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	42	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · progressive | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | one daughter of mine |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 3 | **set** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you |  |  |  |  | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **take** | present · perfect · passive | the Troll |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Destination |
| 5 | **have** | shall | you | daughter |  |  |  | willingly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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