--- title: 'It is all very well for you to pretend that you have such good mann… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'It is all very well for you to pretend that you have such good manners, and are so much better than we, but we have at least a father and mother, while you have only got the river, like the toads and the frogs.' Who acts: matter, you, we. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Openin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/107/) [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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/) / 107 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 107 'It is all very well for you to pretend that you have such good manners, and are so much better than we, but we have at least a father and mother, while you have only got the river, like the toads and the frogs.' **Who acts:** matter, you, we · **What happens:** be, pretend, have, get · **To what, where:** such good manners, father, least, river This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter, you, we), 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:pg3027:32:107 # text = 'It is all very well for you to pretend that you have such good manners, and are so much better than we, but we have at least a father and mother, while you have only got the river, like the toads and the frogs.' 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 all all ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 for for SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 pretend pretend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 14 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 manners manners NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 much much ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 conj _ _ 23 than than ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 32 nmod _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 while while SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 only only ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 like like ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 toads toad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | matter | | | | | all, well *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **pretend** | to-infinitive | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | you | such good manners | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | than we; good *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | present | we | a father and mother | | least | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient | | 6 | **get** | present · perfect | you | the river | | | | like the toads and the frogs | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Stimulus | 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 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/106/) - next →: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/108/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/)