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title: ‘But he shall not succeed,’ cried he of the little hat, ‘I will make… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘But he shall not succeed,’ cried he of the little hat, ‘I will make a frost come which shall make the fire ashamed and die out!’ Who acts: King, I, frost. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 51

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‘But he shall not succeed,’ cried he of the little hat, ‘I will make a frost come which shall make the fire ashamed and die out!’

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**Who acts:** King, I, frost · **What happens:** not succeed, cry, make, come, die out · **To what, where:** fire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (King, I, frost), 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:pg640:19:51
# text = ‘But he shall not succeed,’ cried he of the little hat, ‘I will make a frost come which shall make the fire ashamed and die out!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **succeed** | shall | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | King |  |  |  |  | of the little hat | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | present | a frost |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | shall |  | the fire |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product |
| 6 | **die out** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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