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title: They are sure to want quantities of grass, and I shall sell all I ha… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They are sure to want quantities of grass, and I shall sell all I have without having to drag it to market.” Who acts: horses, I. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 32

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They are sure to want quantities of grass, and I shall sell all I have without having to drag it to market.”

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**Who acts:** horses, I · **What happens:** be, want, sell, have, drag · **To what, where:** quantities, all, grass, market

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses, 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:pg3282:34:32
# text = They are sure to want quantities of grass, and I shall sell all I have without having to drag it to market.”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	quantities	quantity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	obj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	drag	drag	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | horses *= horse* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | to-infinitive | horses *= horse* *not said here* | quantities of grass |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot quantity=Theme |
| 3 | **sell** | shall | I | all |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **drag** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | grass |  | market |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to market=Destination |

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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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