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title: The maiden answered, ‘We will leave him that; he has already lost hi… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The maiden answered, ‘We will leave him that; he has already lost his wealth!’ Who acts: maiden, We, Thenceforward. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 38

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The maiden answered, ‘We will leave him that; he has already lost his wealth!’

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**Who acts:** maiden, We, Thenceforward · **What happens:** answer, leave, lose · **To what, where:** Thenceforward, wealth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, We, Thenceforward), 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:pg640:10:38
# text = The maiden answered, ‘We will leave him that; he has already lost his wealth!’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	already	already	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the maiden |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | future | We | Thenceforward |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme that=Attribute |
| 3 | **lose** | present · perfect | Thenceforward | Thenceforward's wealth |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Eventuality |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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