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title: But you will have to pretend that you want it for yourself; and, abo… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But you will have to pretend that you want it for yourself; and, above all, do not mention me, for he sets great store by it, and would never part with it to a stranger! Who acts: you, stone. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 58

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But you will have to pretend that you want it for yourself; and, above all, do not mention me, for he sets great store by it, and would never part with it to a stranger!

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**Who acts:** you, stone · **What happens:** have, pretend, want, not mention, set · **To what, where:** necklace, me, all, great store

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, stone), 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:pg3027:14:58
# text = But you will have to pretend that you want it for yourself; and, above all, do not mention me, for he sets great store by it, and would never part with it to a stranger!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	above	above	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	mention	mention	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pretend** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **want** | present | you | necklace |  |  |  | for yourself | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **mention** *speech: other* | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | me |  | all |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Topic |
| 5 | **set** | present | stone | great store |  |  |  | by necklace | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent store=Theme by it=Destination |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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