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title: ‘All I ask,’ replied Iwanich, ‘is, that I should be allowed to go th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘All I ask,’ replied Iwanich, ‘is, that I should be allowed to go through this wood in safety.’ Who acts: All, Iwanich, ‘. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 92

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‘All I ask,’ replied Iwanich, ‘is, that I should be allowed to go through this wood in safety.’

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**Who acts:** All, Iwanich, ‘ · **What happens:** ask, reply, be, go · **To what, where:** Iwanich, ‘, wood

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (All, Iwanich, ‘), 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:pg640:30:92
# text = ‘All I ask,’ replied Iwanich, ‘is, that I should be allowed to go through this wood in safety.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	‘	‘	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | All |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | Iwanich |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent iwanich=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | should · present · passive | Iwanich *not said here* | ‘ |  |  |  | allow *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | ‘ *not said here* |  |  | this wood |  | in safety | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through wood=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 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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