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title: ‘Catherine,’ she said, going up to the girl, ‘which would you rather… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Catherine,’ she said, going up to the girl, ‘which would you rather have-a happy youth or a happy old age?’ Who acts: Catherine. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 71

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‘Catherine,’ she said, going up to the girl, ‘which would you rather have-a happy youth or a happy old age?’

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**Who acts:** Catherine · **What happens:** say, go up, have · **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 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catherine), 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:pg5615:18:71
# text = ‘Catherine,’ she said, going up to the girl, ‘which would you rather have-a happy youth or a happy old age?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	ccomp	_	_
9	up	up	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	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 | Catherine |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the girl | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **have** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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