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title: The only thing I can do for you is to offer to give up my snow-shoes… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The only thing I can do for you is to offer to give up my snow-shoes altogether if you will throw me down one of your young ones in exchange.” Who acts: I, only thing, you. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 72

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The only thing I can do for you is to offer to give up my snow-shoes altogether if you will throw me down one of your young ones in exchange.”

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**Who acts:** I, only thing, you · **What happens:** do, be, give up, throw down · **To what, where:** only thing, snow shoes, me

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, only thing, 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:pg2435:24:72
# text = The only thing I can do for you is to offer to give up my snow-shoes altogether if you will throw me down one of your young ones in exchange.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
19	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | can | I | the only thing *not said here* |  |  |  | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | the only thing |  |  |  |  | offer *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the only thing *not said here* | my snow shoes |  |  |  | altogether *property* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Source |
| 4 | **throw down** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | me |  |  |  | one of your young ones in exchange *obl:unmarked* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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:** «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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