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title: She was to kill the lion herself and cut him up very small; then she… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was to kill the lion herself and cut him up very small; then she must burn him, and cast his ashes into the water, and out of the water the prince would come free from enchantment for ever. Who acts: giant, prince. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21,
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 86

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She was to kill the lion herself and cut him up very small; then she must burn him, and cast his ashes into the water, and out of the water the prince would come free from enchantment for ever.

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**Who acts:** giant, prince · **What happens:** be, cut up, burn, cast, come · **To what, where:** prince, ashes, water

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, 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:pg5615:21:86
# text = She was to kill the lion herself and cut him up very small; then she must burn him, and cast his ashes into the water, and out of the water the prince would come free from enchantment for ever.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
38	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | giant |  |  |  |  | giant *obl*; kill *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut up** | infinitive | giant *not said here* | prince |  |  |  | small *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
| 3 | **burn** | must | giant | prince |  |  | then |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **cast** | past | giant *not said here* | prince's ashes |  | the water |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent ash=Material into water=Product |
| 5 | **come** | would | the prince |  |  | the water |  | from enchantment; free *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme out water=Initial\_Location from enchantment=Destination |

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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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