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title: ‘But as you wish for it so much, well, I suppose I can’t refuse,’ an… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘But as you wish for it so much, well, I suppose I can’t refuse,’ and he held out the whistle, which the eldest brother put in his pocket. Who acts: you, I, treasure, whistle. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 64

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‘But as you wish for it so much, well, I suppose I can’t refuse,’ and he held out the whistle, which the eldest brother put in his pocket.

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**Who acts:** you, I, treasure, whistle · **What happens:** wish, suppose, not refuse, hold out, brother, put · **To what, where:** whistle, eldest brother, pocket · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. 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, treasure, whistle), 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:pg3454:12:64
# text = ‘But as you wish for it so much, well, I suppose I can’t refuse,’ and he held out the whistle, which the eldest brother put in his pocket.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	suppose	suppose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | present | you |  |  |  |  | for whistle | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for it=Theme |
| 2 | **suppose** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **refuse** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hold out** | past | treasure | the whistle and the eldest brother |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Theme |
| 5 | **brother** |  | the whistle and the eldest brother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **put** | participle |  | the eldest brother *not said here* |  | treasure's pocket |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pocket=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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