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title: If you will give me some workmen and materials I will build you a gr… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If you will give me some workmen and materials I will build you a great white pillar that shall reach far above the clouds.” Who acts: you, I, great white pillar. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 85

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If you will give me some workmen and materials I will build you a great white pillar that shall reach far above the clouds.”

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**Who acts:** you, I, great white pillar · **What happens:** give, build, reach · **To what, where:** workmen, me, great white pillar, you

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, great white pillar), 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:pg2435:4:85
# text = If you will give me some workmen and materials I will build you a great white pillar that shall reach far above the clouds.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	workmen	workman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	materials	material	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
22	above	above	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | some workmen and materials | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient workman=Theme |
| 2 | **build** | future | I | a great white pillar | you |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary pillar=Product |
| 3 | **reach** | shall | a great white pillar |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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