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title: ‘Yes,’ said they, ‘if you have a mind to take to the trade that we f… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Yes,’ said they, ‘if you have a mind to take to the trade that we follow, you may have a place here.’ Who acts: robbers, you, we. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 29

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‘Yes,’ said they, ‘if you have a mind to take to the trade that we follow, you may have a place here.’

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**Who acts:** robbers, you, we · **What happens:** say, have, take, follow · **To what, where:** mind, trade, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers, you, we), 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:pg540:9:29
# text = ‘Yes,’ said they, ‘if you have a mind to take to the trade that we follow, you may have a place here.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	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 | robbers *= robber* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a mind |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a mind *not said here* |  |  |  | to the trade *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to trade=Result |
| 4 | **follow** | present | we | the trade |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | may | you | a place |  | here |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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