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title: ‘Nay! do Christian folk dare to come here?’ cried the second Princess. — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Nay! do Christian folk dare to come here?’ cried the second Princess. 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 42

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‘Nay! do Christian folk dare to come here?’ cried the second Princess.

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**What happens:** do, come, cry · **To what, where:** Christian folk dare, second Princess

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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: 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:pg540:6:42
# text = ‘Nay! do Christian folk dare to come here?’ cried the second Princess.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
5	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | Christian folk dare |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dare=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive |  | Christian folk dare *not said here* |  | here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | the second Princess |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic |

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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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