--- title: "You've done better for yourself than you know," answered the fairy,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "You've done better for yourself than you know," answered the fairy, "and to show I'm not ungrateful, I'll grant you your next three wishes, be they what they may." Who acts: You, fairy, your. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, fairy, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:24:31 # text = "You've done better for yourself than you know," answered the fairy, "and to show I'm not ungrateful, I'll grant you your next three wishes, be they what they may." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 5 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 xcomp _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obl _ _ 8 than than SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 13 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 ungrateful ungrateful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 grant grant VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 parataxis _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 31 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 wishes wish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 ccomp _ _ 37 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 36 obj _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect | You | | | | | for yourself; good *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the fairy | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **show** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the fairy *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | the fairy *= fairy* | | | | | ungrateful *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **grant** *in a quote* | future | the fairy *= fairy* | your next three wishes | you | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal wish=Theme | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Wishes *= wish* | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **wish** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/24/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/24/32/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/24/)