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title: I can sell it as _easy_ as _easy_, and get a lot o' penny pieces for… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I can sell it as _easy_ as _easy_, and get a lot o' penny pieces for it. Who acts: I. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 6

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I can sell it as \_easy\_ as \_easy\_, and get a lot o' penny pieces for it.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** sell, get · **To what, where:** astonishment, lot

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. 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:pg14241:20:6
# text = I can sell it as _easy_ as _easy_, and get a lot o' penny pieces for it.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | can | I | astonishment |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive |  | a lot |  |  |  | of penny pieces for astonishment | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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