--- title: “I am very lean and small now,” he said, “hardly worth the trouble o… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “I am very lean and small now,” he said, “hardly worth the trouble of cooking; but if you were to keep me two days, and gave me plenty of food, I should get big and fat. Who acts: ball, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ball, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3282:7:43 # text = “I am very lean and small now,” he said, “hardly worth the trouble of cooking; but if you were to keep me two days, and gave me plenty of food, I should get big and fat. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 lean lean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 ccomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 ccomp _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 cooking cooking NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 34 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 iobj _ _ 35 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 42 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 xcomp _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | ball | | | | now | lean *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | | ball *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | ball | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | you | ball | | | day | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 5 | **give** *in a quote* | past | ball *not said here* | plenty of food | ball | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient plenty=Theme | | 6 | **get** *in a quote* | should | ball | | | | | big *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **trouble** *in a quote* | | | cooking | | | | | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/7/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/7/44/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/7/)