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title: “I have thought of exactly the thing for you,” said the herdsman as… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have thought of exactly the thing for you,” said the herdsman as they walked along, “and it is so simple that you cannot make a mistake. Who acts: herdsman, cattle, thing, you. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 23

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“I have thought of exactly the thing for you,” said the herdsman as they walked along, “and it is so simple that you cannot make a mistake.

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**Who acts:** herdsman, cattle, thing, you · **What happens:** think, say, walk, be, not make · **To what, where:** mistake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herdsman, cattle, 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:pg2435:27:23
# text = “I have thought of exactly the thing for you,” said the herdsman as they walked along, “and it is so simple that you cannot make a mistake.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
19	along	along	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · perfect | the herdsman *= herdsman* |  |  |  |  | of the thing for you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the herdsman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **walk** | past | cattle |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | thing |  |  |  |  | simple *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **make** *in a quote* | can | you | a mistake |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product |

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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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