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title: What if the old man should die and leave her here alone in the solit… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: What if the old man should die and leave her here alone in the solitary cottage deep in the heart of the wood! Who acts: old man. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 13

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What if the old man should die and leave her here alone in the solitary cottage deep in the heart of the wood!

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**Who acts:** old man · **What happens:** die, leave · **To what, where:** bride, solitary cottage

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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:pg5615:22:13
# text = What if the old man should die and leave her here alone in the solitary cottage deep in the heart of the wood!
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
12	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | should | the old man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive | the old man *not said here* | bride |  | the solitary cottage in the heart of the wood; here |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in cottage=Location |

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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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