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title: She too said what the others had said, that no Christian folk had ev… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She too said what the others had said, that no Christian folk had ever been there since she had come, and entreated him to go away again, or else the Troll would swallow him up alive. Who acts: Princess, others, Christian folk, Troll. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Ca
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# The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 62

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She too said what the others had said, that no Christian folk had ever been there since she had come, and entreated him to go away again, or else the Troll would swallow him up alive.

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**Who acts:** Princess, others, Christian folk, Troll · **What happens:** say, be, come, entreat, go away, swallow up · **To what, where:** Halvor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Princess, others, Christian folk, 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:pg540:6:62
# text = She too said what the others had said, that no Christian folk had ever been there since she had come, and entreated him to go away again, or else the Troll would swallow him up alive.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
12	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
15	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
18	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	else	else	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
39	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | the others |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | participle |  |  |  |  | ever | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past · perfect | no Christian folk |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **entreat** | past | Princess *not said here* | Halvor |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **go away** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  | again | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **swallow up** | would | the Troll | Halvor |  |  |  | alive, else *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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