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title: The maiden answered, ‘Your prayers and your repentance come too late… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The maiden answered, ‘Your prayers and your repentance come too late, and if I were to spare you everyone would think me a fool. Who acts: maiden, prayers, I, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 183

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The maiden answered, ‘Your prayers and your repentance come too late, and if I were to spare you everyone would think me a fool.

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**Who acts:** maiden, prayers, I, you, Your · **What happens:** answer, come, spare, think, pray, repent · **To what, where:** me

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, prayers, I, 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:pg640:5:183
# text = The maiden answered, ‘Your prayers and your repentance come too late, and if I were to spare you everyone would think me a fool.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	repentance	repentance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the maiden |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present | Your prayers and your repentance |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **spare** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | would | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme fool=Attribute |
| 5 | **pray** |  | Your |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **repent** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom repentance «feeling transitive»: 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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