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title: There is no use your talking about making snow-shoes out of this tre… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no use your talking about making snow-shoes out of this tree, when you have neither knife nor axe to cut it down with!” Who acts: use, talking, you, your. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 86

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There is no use your talking about making snow-shoes out of this tree, when you have neither knife nor axe to cut it down with!”

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**Who acts:** use, talking, you, your · **What happens:** be, make, have, cut down, talk · **To what, where:** snow shoes, tree, knife

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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 (use, talking, 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:pg2435:24:86
# text = There is no use your talking about making snow-shoes out of this tree, when you have neither knife nor axe to cut it down with!”
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	talking	talking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc	_	_
23	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no use |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | your talking *not said here* | snow shoes |  | this tree |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shoe=Product |
| 3 | **have** | present | you | neither knife nor axe |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient |
| 4 | **cut down** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | knife |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 5 | **talk** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom talking «communication intransitive»: 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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