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title: She called to them, and said that they could still get to shore aliv… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She called to them, and said that they could still get to shore alive if they would promise her the son that was next to come to their mother the queen. Who acts: woman, princes, son. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 96

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She called to them, and said that they could still get to shore alive if they would promise her the son that was next to come to their mother the queen.

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**Who acts:** woman, princes, son · **What happens:** call, say, get, promise, come · **To what, where:** princes, woman · **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 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, princes, son), 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:pg5615:25:96
# text = She called to them, and said that they could still get to shore alive if they would promise her the son that was next to come to their mother the queen.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	vocative	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	next	next	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | woman |  | princes *= prince* |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **get** | could | princes *= prince* |  |  |  | still | to shore *result*; alive *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to shore=Result |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* *a condition, not said to happen* | would | princes *= prince* |  | woman |  |  | the son *vocative* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | the son |  |  |  |  | to princes's mother; next *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial\_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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