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title: I envy you; and I would gladly change places with you, if I could on… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: I envy you; and I would gladly change places with you, if I could only be as light-hearted as you are." Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Miller of the Dee., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Miller of the Dee., sentence 11

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I envy you; and I would gladly change places with you, if I could only be as light-hearted as you are."

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** envy, change, heart, be · **To what, where:** you, places, I

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Miller of the Dee.. 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), 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:pg18442:16:11
# text = I envy you; and I would gladly change places with you, if I could only be as light-hearted as you are."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	envy	envy	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	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
10	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	hearted	heart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **envy** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 2 | **change** | would | I | places |  |  |  | with you; gladly *property* | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent place=Theme with you=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **heart** *a condition, not said to happen* | could · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **does** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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