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title: ‘You richly deserve death,’ said he, ‘but I will allow you to live i… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You richly deserve death,’ said he, ‘but I will allow you to live if you will instantly hand over to me the coverlet, the purse, and the horn.’ Who acts: You, Ciccu, I. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 92

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‘You richly deserve death,’ said he, ‘but I will allow you to live if you will instantly hand over to me the coverlet, the purse, and the horn.’

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**Who acts:** You, Ciccu, I · **What happens:** deserve, say, allow, live, hand over · **To what, where:** death, you, coverlet, me · **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 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Ciccu, I), 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:pg5615:37:92
# text = ‘You richly deserve death,’ said he, ‘but I will allow you to live if you will instantly hand over to me the coverlet, the purse, and the horn.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	deserve	deserve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
5	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deserve** | present | You | death |  |  |  | richly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ciccu |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **allow** | future | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer you=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **live** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hand over** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | the coverlet and the purse | me |  |  | instantly *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coverlet=Theme to i=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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