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title: But you WOULD have it, and I certainly sha’n’t move now till I am fo… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But you WOULD have it, and I certainly sha’n’t move now till I am forced to.” Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 77

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But you WOULD have it, and I certainly sha’n’t move now till I am forced to.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** have, not move, force · **To what, where:** shriek, I

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg3282:16:77
# text = But you WOULD have it, and I certainly sha’n’t move now till I am forced to.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	WOULD	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	sha’	sha'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
14	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | you | shriek |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **move** | infinitive | I |  |  |  | now | certainly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **force** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |

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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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