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title: But think you I'm such a fool as to take on me a long and wearisome… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But think you I'm such a fool as to take on me a long and wearisome journey and all for a silly dream. Who acts: I. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 65

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But think you I'm such a fool as to take on me a long and wearisome journey and all for a silly dream.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** think, be, take on · **To what, where:** you, fool, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. 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:pg14241:23:65
# text = But think you I'm such a fool as to take on me a long and wearisome journey and all for a silly dream.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	8	det:predet	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	wearisome	wearisome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | I | such fool |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take on** | to-infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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