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title: “O very stuff of my life,” replied Jamila “I will give you things th… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “O very stuff of my life,” replied Jamila “I will give you things that are not in kings’ treasuries, and which will be of the greatest use to you. Who acts: stuff, Jamila, things. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 93

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“O very stuff of my life,” replied Jamila “I will give you things that are not in kings’ treasuries, and which will be of the greatest use to you.

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**Who acts:** stuff, Jamila, things · **What happens:** reply, give, not be, be · **To what, where:** things, you, treasuries · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stuff, Jamila, things), 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:pg3282:3:93
# text = “O very stuff of my life,” replied Jamila “I will give you things that are not in kings’ treasuries, and which will be of the greatest use to you.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Jamila	Jamila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	treasuries	treasury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	_
33	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | stuff of my life |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | future | Jamila | things | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient thing=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | things |  |  | kings's treasuries |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | future |  |  | you |  |  | of the greatest use | tree rules |

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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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