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title: I should never have come home again out of the great wild wood if I… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I should never have come home again out of the great wild wood if I had not come to an iron stove, to whom I have had to promise that I will go back to free him and marry him!’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7), with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 16

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I should never have come home again out of the great wild wood if I had not come to an iron stove, to whom I have had to promise that I will go back to free him and marry him!’

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not come, have, promise, go back, marry · **To what, where:** great wild wood, iron stove, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg640:8:16
# text = I should never have come home again out of the great wild wood if I had not come to an iron stove, to whom I have had to promise that I will go back to free him and marry him!’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	ccomp	_	_
35	back	back	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **come** | should · perfect | I |  |  | the great wild wood | again | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out wood=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I |  |  | a iron stove |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to stove=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **have** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **go back** | future | I |  |  |  |  | free *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **marry** | infinitive | I *not said here* | king |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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