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title: ‘I would be glad to hear the story too, and if it be as wonderful as… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I would be glad to hear the story too, and if it be as wonderful as the last, I will pardon this young man as I did the other.’ Who acts: I, story. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 88

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‘I would be glad to hear the story too, and if it be as wonderful as the last, I will pardon this young man as I did the other.’

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**Who acts:** I, story · **What happens:** be, hear, pardon, do · **To what, where:** story, young man, other

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, story), 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:pg540:8:88
# text = ‘I would be glad to hear the story too, and if it be as wonderful as the last, I will pardon this young man as I did the other.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	pardon	pardon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
26	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | I |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the story |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | story |  |  |  |  | as the last; wonderful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pardon** | future | I | this young man |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | past | I | the other |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality |

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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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