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title: O Chinese Venus! how shall I excuse myself for giving you so much tr… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: O Chinese Venus! how shall I excuse myself for giving you so much trouble? Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 74

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O Chinese Venus! how shall I excuse myself for giving you so much trouble?

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** excuse, give · **To what, where:** myself, much trouble, you

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg3282:3:74
# text = O Chinese Venus! how shall I excuse myself for giving you so much trouble?
1	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	3	case	_	_
2	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Venus	Venus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	excuse	excuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **excuse** | shall | I | myself |  |  |  | of Chinese Venus | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | I *not said here* | much trouble | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient trouble=Theme |

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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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