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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 95

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“You will have to wait till the spring, though,” she said; “I must make a great many slippers and dresses for myself, as I shall not have much time afterwards.”

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**Who acts:** You, girl · **What happens:** have, wait, say, make, not have · **To what, where:** great many slippers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, girl), 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:pg3282:11:95
# text = “You will have to wait till the spring, though,” she said; “I must make a great many slippers and dresses for myself, as I shall not have much time afterwards.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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	15	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	till	till	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	though	though	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
35	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | future | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  | spring | though *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | must | girl | a great many slippers and dresses |  |  |  | for girl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent slipper=Material for myself=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | shall | girl |  |  |  | time | afterwards *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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