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title: I thought you would have guns with you, and that you would not mind… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I thought you would have guns with you, and that you would not mind killing me if you saw me; but when I saw the gentleman going away with the carriage, and leaving you behind by yourself, I made bold to come to you, to see who you were, and now I know who you are very well. Who acts: I, you, gentle
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 80

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I thought you would have guns with you, and that you would not mind killing me if you saw me; but when I saw the gentleman going away with the carriage, and leaving you behind by yourself, I made bold to come to you, to see who you were, and now I know who you are very well.

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**Who acts:** I, you, gentleman · **What happens:** think, have, not mind, kill, see, go away · **To what, where:** guns, me, gentleman, you · **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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, gentleman), 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:pg14241:27:80
# text = I thought you would have guns with you, and that you would not mind killing me if you saw me; but when I saw the gentleman going away with the carriage, and leaving you behind by yourself, I made bold to come to you, to see who you were, and now I know who you are very well.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
16	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
36	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	advcl	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
44	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	xcomp	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	_
52	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	51	ccomp	_	_
53	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
54	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
57	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	59	advmod	_	_
58	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
60	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	64	nsubj	_	_
61	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
62	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	64	cop	_	_
63	very	very	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	_
64	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	59	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	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* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | would | you | guns |  |  |  | with you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **mind** | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **kill** | gerund | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 5 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 6 | **see** | past | I | the gentleman |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gentleman=Stimulus |
| 7 | **go away** | gerund | the gentleman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the carriage; away *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with carriage=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **leave** | gerund | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  | by yourself; behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme by yourself=Location |
| 9 | **make** | past | I |  |  |  |  | bold *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **come** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial\_Location |
| 11 | **see** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 12 | **is a** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 13 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 14 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | 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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