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title: The squire can send him this evening to fish in Devilmoss Lake: he w… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The squire can send him this evening to fish in Devilmoss Lake: he will never escape alive from there, for no one can go there by night for Old Eric.’ Who acts: squire, steward, one. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 48

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The squire can send him this evening to fish in Devilmoss Lake: he will never escape alive from there, for no one can go there by night for Old Eric.’

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**Who acts:** squire, steward, one · **What happens:** send, not escape, go · **To what, where:** steward, fish

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squire, steward, one), 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:pg5615:13:48
# text = The squire can send him this evening to fish in Devilmoss Lake: he will never escape alive from there, for no one can go there by night for Old Eric.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	squire	squire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Devilmoss	Devilmoss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
18	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Eric	Eric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | can | the squire | steward | fish in Devilmoss Lake |  | evening |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to fish=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **escape** | future | steward |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from there=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **go** | can | no one |  |  | there | night | for Old Eric | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for eric=Beneficiary |

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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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