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title: The Snow-queen had said, ‘If you can spell out that word you shalt b… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Snow-queen had said, ‘If you can spell out that word you shalt be your own master. Who acts: Snow queen, you. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 107

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The Snow-queen had said, ‘If you can spell out that word you shalt be your own master.

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**Who acts:** Snow queen, you · **What happens:** say, spell out, be · **To what, where:** word, own master · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow queen, you), 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:pg5615:10:107
# text = The Snow-queen had said, ‘If you can spell out that word you shalt be your own master.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	spell	spell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
17	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 · perfect | the Snow queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spell out** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | that word |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | shall | you | your own master |  |  |  |  | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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