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title: ‘Hail, Prince!’ says she; ‘whither does God send you? and is it of y… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Hail, Prince!’ says she; ‘whither does God send you? and is it of your free will or against your will?’ Who acts: Hail, God. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 55

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‘Hail, Prince!’ says she; ‘whither does God send you? and is it of your free will or against your will?’

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**Who acts:** Hail, God · **What happens:** say, send, be · **To what, where:** host, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hail, God), 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:pg540:7:55
# text = ‘Hail, Prince!’ says she; ‘whither does God send you? and is it of your free will or against your will?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	against	against	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Hail | host |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | present · do-support | God |  | you |  |  | whither *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | Hail |  |  |  |  | free *property* | tree rules |

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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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