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title: ‘This time,’ she said to herself, ‘I will think of something that wi… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘This time,’ she said to herself, ‘I will think of something that will make an end of her once and for all.’ Who acts: SNOWDROP, I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 210

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‘This time,’ she said to herself, ‘I will think of something that will make an end of her once and for all.’

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**Who acts:** SNOWDROP, I · **What happens:** say, think, make · **To what, where:** SNOWDROP, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SNOWDROP, I), 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:pg540:47:210
# text = ‘This time,’ she said to herself, ‘I will think of something that will make an end of her once and for all.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | SNOWDROP |  | SNOWDROP |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | future | I |  |  |  |  | of something | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | future |  | a end of SNOWDROP |  |  |  | once *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product |

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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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