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title: Say we are robbed, If any come to borrow a spoon or so I will not ha… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Say we are robbed, If any come to borrow a spoon or so I will not have Good Fortune or God's Blessing Let in, while I am busy. Who acts: you, come, I. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLV. Hereafterthis, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLV. Hereafterthis, sentence 9

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Say we are robbed, If any come to borrow a spoon or so I will not have Good Fortune or God's Blessing Let in, while I am busy.

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**Who acts:** you, come, I · **What happens:** say, rob, borrow, not have, let in, be · **To what, where:** we, spoon, Good Fortune · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLV. Hereafterthis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, come, 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:pg14241:36:9
# text = Say we are robbed, If any come to borrow a spoon or so I will not have Good Fortune or God's Blessing Let in, while I am busy.
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	robbed	rob	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	come	come	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	borrow	borrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	Blessing	Blessing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
26	in	in	ADV	RB	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **rob** | present · passive |  | we |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
| 3 | **borrow** *a condition, not said to happen* | to-infinitive | any come | a spoon |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **have** | future | I | Good Fortune or God's Blessing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Patient |
| 5 | **let in** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | busy *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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