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title: ‘Oh, dearest John,’ replied the girl, ‘give me your hand and set me… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh, dearest John,’ replied the girl, ‘give me your hand and set me free from this cursed young man.’ Who acts: dearest. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 33

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‘Oh, dearest John,’ replied the girl, ‘give me your hand and set me free from this cursed young man.’

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**Who acts:** dearest · **What happens:** reply, give, set, curse · **To what, where:** girl, hand, me

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dearest), 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:pg7277:23:33
# text = ‘Oh, dearest John,’ replied the girl, ‘give me your hand and set me free from this cursed young man.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	dearest	dear	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nsubj	_	_
5	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
23	cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
24	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | dearest | the girl |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent girl=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive |  | your hand | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hand=Theme |
| 3 | **set** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  | from cursed young man; free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result |
| 4 | **curse** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 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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