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title: ‘I shall have died of starvation by the time all that is done,’ said… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I shall have died of starvation by the time all that is done,’ said the Prince ruefully. Who acts: I, Prince. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 40

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‘I shall have died of starvation by the time all that is done,’ said the Prince ruefully.

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**Who acts:** I, Prince · **What happens:** die, do, say · **To what, where:** that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Prince), 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:pg7277:36:40
# text = ‘I shall have died of starvation by the time all that is done,’ said the Prince ruefully.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	starvation	starvation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
20	ruefully	ruefully	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | shall · perfect | I |  |  |  | time | of starvation | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of starvation=Causer |
| 2 | **do** | present · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  | ruefully *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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 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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