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title: Sigurd accepted this condition, but added that he would have to get… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Sigurd accepted this condition, but added that he would have to get leave to go home again to his own country when he heard news of his father’s death. Who acts: Sigurd, father. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 8

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Sigurd accepted this condition, but added that he would have to get leave to go home again to his own country when he heard news of his father’s death.

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**Who acts:** Sigurd, father · **What happens:** accept, add, have, get, leave, go · **To what, where:** condition, own country, news · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sigurd, father), 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:pg640:47:8
# text = Sigurd accepted this condition, but added that he would have to get leave to go home again to his own country when he heard news of his father’s death.
1	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
26	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | past | Sigurd | this condition |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Theme |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | Sigurd *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | would | Sigurd |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | Sigurd *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **leave** | infinitive | Sigurd *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | Sigurd *not said here* |  |  | Sigurd's own country | again | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **hear** | past | Sigurd | news of Sigurd's father's death |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus |
| 8 | **die** |  | Sigurd's father |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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