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title: The fox agreed that this would be excellent; if the prince would now… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The fox agreed that this would be excellent; if the prince would now go and carry her off he would give him three grains of gold for that purpose. Who acts: fox, this, prince. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 37

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The fox agreed that this would be excellent; if the prince would now go and carry her off he would give him three grains of gold for that purpose.

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**Who acts:** fox, this, prince · **What happens:** agree, be, go, carry off, give · **To what, where:** princess, three grains, fox · **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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, this, prince), 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:pg5615:15:37
# text = The fox agreed that this would be excellent; if the prince would now go and carry her off he would give him three grains of gold for that purpose.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would | this |  |  |  |  | excellent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | the prince |  |  |  | now |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **carry off** | infinitive | the prince *not said here* | princess |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | would | prince | three grains of gold | fox |  |  | for that purpose | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient grain=Theme for purpose=Asset |

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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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