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title: Do you suppose my son would compete with that crazy tailor as to whi… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Do you suppose my son would compete with that crazy tailor as to which could make the best clothes? Who acts: you, son. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 40

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Do you suppose my son would compete with that crazy tailor as to which could make the best clothes?

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**Who acts:** you, son · **What happens:** suppose, compete, make · **To what, where:** best clothes · **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 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, son), 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:pg2435:35:40
# text = Do you suppose my son would compete with that crazy tailor as to which could make the best clothes?
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	compete	compete	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **compete** | would | my son |  |  |  |  | with that crazy tailor | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with tailor=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **make** | could |  | the best clothes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clothes=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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