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title: Therefore he answered cautiously, ‘Do not be angry, dear maiden, if… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore he answered cautiously, ‘Do not be angry, dear maiden, if I do not decide immediately on this important matter. Who acts: foot, I. 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 clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 85

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Therefore he answered cautiously, ‘Do not be angry, dear maiden, if I do not decide immediately on this important matter.

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**Who acts:** foot, I · **What happens:** answer, not be, not decide

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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 (foot, I), 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:pg640:5:85
# text = Therefore he answered cautiously, ‘Do not be angry, dear maiden, if I do not decide immediately on this important matter.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	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 | foot |  |  |  |  | cautiously, therefore *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **decide** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | on this important matter; immediately *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on matter=Topic |

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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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