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title: He was to wake the maiden instantly and carry her off, and to be sur… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was to wake the maiden instantly and carry her off, and to be sure not to pay any heed to whatever resistance she might make. Who acts: Saphir, heart. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 91

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He was to wake the maiden instantly and carry her off, and to be sure not to pay any heed to whatever resistance she might make.

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**Who acts:** Saphir, heart · **What happens:** be, carry off, not pay, make · **To what, where:** heart, heed, resistance

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saphir, heart), 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:pg640:11:91
# text = He was to wake the maiden instantly and carry her off, and to be sure not to pay any heed to whatever resistance she might make.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|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	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
24	resistance	resistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	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 | Saphir |  |  |  |  | instantly, wake *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry off** | infinitive | Saphir *not said here* | heart |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **pay** | to-infinitive |  | any heed |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent heed=Recipient whatever=Asset |
| 5 | **make** | might | heart | resistance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resistance=Product |

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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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