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title: They thought they could easily manage that it would be Hans who woul… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They thought they could easily manage that it would be Hans who would lose his life, for the others would be early on the road, while Hans would certainly oversleep himself. Who acts: Hans, steward, others. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, with its de
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 90

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They thought they could easily manage that it would be Hans who would lose his life, for the others would be early on the road, while Hans would certainly oversleep himself.

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**Who acts:** Hans, steward, others · **What happens:** think, manage, be, lose, oversleep · **To what, where:** Hans, life, squire · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, steward, others), 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:pg5615:12:90
# text = They thought they could easily manage that it would be Hans who would lose his life, for the others would be early on the road, while Hans would certainly oversleep himself.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	Hans	han	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
23	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	Hans	Han	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	oversleep	oversleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
33	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Hans *= han* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **manage** | could | Hans *= han* |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | would | steward | Hans |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | would | Hans | squire's life |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is** | would | the others |  |  |  |  | for the road; early *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **oversleep** | would | Hans | squire |  |  |  | certainly *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 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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