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title: ‘I shall go with you,’ she answered, ‘for, except you, I have no one… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I shall go with you,’ she answered, ‘for, except you, I have no one in the world, and I have a feeling that if we set out together we shall be lucky.’ Who acts: I, sister, you, we. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), with its dependency tree
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 26

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‘I shall go with you,’ she answered, ‘for, except you, I have no one in the world, and I have a feeling that if we set out together we shall be lucky.’

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**Who acts:** I, sister, you, we · **What happens:** go, answer, have, set out, be · **To what, where:** one, world, feeling

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sister, you, we), 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:pg640:36:26
# text = ‘I shall go with you,’ she answered, ‘for, except you, I have no one in the world, and I have a feeling that if we set out together we shall be lucky.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	‘	‘	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	except	except	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	together	together	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	cop	_	_
40	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | you | no one |  | the world |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | present | I | a feeling |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient |
| 5 | **set out** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | we |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | shall | we | a feeling *not said here* |  |  |  | lucky *property* | tree rules |

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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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