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title: "But if I give it to you now, perhaps you will believe me," said the… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: "But if I give it to you now, perhaps you will believe me," said the king; and he put the gold piece into the little fellow's hand. Who acts: king, you. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 33

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"But if I give it to you now, perhaps you will believe me," said the king; and he put the gold piece into the little fellow's hand.

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**Who acts:** king, you · **What happens:** give, believe, say, put · **To what, where:** piece, you, king, gold piece, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Maximilian and the Goose Boy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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:pg18442:47:33
# text = "But if I give it to you now, perhaps you will believe me," said the king; and he put the gold piece into the little fellow's hand.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the king *= king* | piece | you |  | now |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient |
| 2 | **believe** *in a quote* | future | you | the king *= king* |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **put** | past | king | the gold piece |  | the little fellow's hand |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent piece=Goal |

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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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