--- title: Yes, it is true I have many beautiful things; but if you want to giv… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Yes, it is true I have many beautiful things; but if you want to give me a present--and to-morrow is my birthday--there IS one thing that I wish for very much.' Who acts: it, I, you, one thing. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/72/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/) / 72 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 72 Yes, it is true I have many beautiful things; but if you want to give me a present--and to-morrow is my birthday--there IS one thing that I wish for very much.' **Who acts:** it, I, you, one thing · **What happens:** be, have, want, give, wish · **To what, where:** many beautiful things, present, me, birthday, one thing 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 (it, I, you, one thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:14:72 # text = Yes, it is true I have many beautiful things; but if you want to give me a present--and to-morrow is my birthday--there IS one thing that I wish for very much.' 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 -- -- PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 31 expl _ _ 31 IS be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 32 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 obj _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 very very ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 much much ADV RB _ 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | it | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | I | many beautiful things | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 3 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a present | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient present=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | | my birthday | | | | to morrow | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | present | one thing | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **wish** | present | I | one thing | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/73/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/)