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description: You would have your trouble for your pains, and would be punished for your greediness by falling down the stone steps and breaking your leg. Who acts: You, your. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 109

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You would have your trouble for your pains, and would be punished for your greediness by falling down the stone steps and breaking your leg.

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**Who acts:** You, your · **What happens:** have, punish, fall down, break, trouble, pain · **To what, where:** trouble, stone steps, leg

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, your), 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:pg2435:15:109
# text = You would have your trouble for your pains, and would be punished for your greediness by falling down the stone steps and breaking your leg.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	greediness	greediness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | You | your trouble |  |  |  | for your pains | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient |
| 2 | **punish** | would · passive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for your greediness | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: for greediness=Theme |
| 3 | **fall down** | gerund | You *not said here* | the stone steps |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient step=Result |
| 4 | **break** | gerund | You *not said here* | your leg |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient |
| 5 | **trouble** |  | your |  |  |  |  | for your pains | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
| 6 | **pain** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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