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title: Am I to give you tobacco for trying to peck my eyes out?' answered I… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Am I to give you tobacco for trying to peck my eyes out?' answered Ian. Who acts: I, tobacco. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 88

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Am I to give you tobacco for trying to peck my eyes out?' answered Ian.

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**Who acts:** I, tobacco · **What happens:** give, try, peck out, answer · **To what, where:** tobacco, you, eyes, Ian

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (I, tobacco), 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:pg3027:4:88
# text = Am I to give you tobacco for trying to peck my eyes out?' answered Ian.
1	Am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	peck	peck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
16	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | I | tobacco | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient tobacco=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | gerund | tobacco *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **peck out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | tobacco *not said here* | my eyes |  |  |  | out *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | I *not said here* |  | Ian |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ian=Eventuality |

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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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