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title: ‘Nay!’ she cried, ‘can Christian folk dare to come hither? — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Nay!’ she cried, ‘can Christian folk dare to come hither? Who acts: being. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 19

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‘Nay!’ she cried, ‘can Christian folk dare to come hither?

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**Who acts:** being · **What happens:** cry, come · **To what, where:** Christian folk dare

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (being), 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:pg540:6:19
# text = ‘Nay!’ she cried, ‘can Christian folk dare to come hither?
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | being | Christian folk dare |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | being *not said here* | Christian folk dare *not said here* |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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