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title: Ah! without it he would be alive now, and my father and mother would… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah! without it he would be alive now, and my father and mother would not in their old age be bowed to the earth with shame and grief! Who acts: Rosimond. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 125

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Ah! without it he would be alive now, and my father and mother would not in their old age be bowed to the earth with shame and grief!

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**Who acts:** Rosimond · **What happens:** be, bow · **To what, where:** father, earth, old age

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosimond), 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:pg7277:19:125
# text = Ah! without it he would be alive now, and my father and mother would not in their old age be bowed to the earth with shame and grief!
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	without	without	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	bowed	bow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Rosimond |  |  |  | now | without experience; alive *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bow** | would · passive |  | my father and mother | the earth with shame and grief |  | in things's old age |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to earth=Recipient |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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