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title: 'Well, if you really wish to please me you will make me a pasty out… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Well, if you really wish to please me you will make me a pasty out of the stings of bees, and be sure it is good.' Who acts: you, pasty. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 52

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'Well, if you really wish to please me you will make me a pasty out of the stings of bees, and be sure it is good.'

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**Who acts:** you, pasty · **What happens:** wish, please, make, be, sting · **To what, where:** me, pasty, bees

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (you, pasty), 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:pg3027:27:52
# text = 'Well, if you really wish to please me you will make me a pasty out of the stings of bees, and be sure it is good.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pasty	pasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **please** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 3 | **make** | future | you | a pasty | me |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary pasty=Product |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | pasty |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **sting** |  |  | bees |  |  |  |  | nom sting «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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