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title: ‘Oh, certainly, Sir King,’ she replied, ‘I can quite well do that, b… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh, certainly, Sir King,’ she replied, ‘I can quite well do that, but on one condition, which if you do not fulfil you will never get out of the wood, and will die of hunger.’ Who acts: woman, I, one condition, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans, with its depen
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 6

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‘Oh, certainly, Sir King,’ she replied, ‘I can quite well do that, but on one condition, which if you do not fulfil you will never get out of the wood, and will die of hunger.’

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**Who acts:** woman, I, one condition, you · **What happens:** reply, do, not fulfil, not get out, die · **To what, where:** Sir King, that, wood

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, I, one condition, you), 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:pg640:4:6
# text = ‘Oh, certainly, Sir King,’ she replied, ‘I can quite well do that, but on one condition, which if you do not fulfil you will never get out of the wood, and will die of hunger.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	parataxis	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	parataxis	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | woman | Sir King |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | can | I | that |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **fulfil** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | one condition |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **get out** | future | you | the wood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **die** | future | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer |

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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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