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title: ‘As you like; since you reject me, let the crows have you,’ and hurr… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘As you like; since you reject me, let the crows have you,’ and hurried away down the street. Who acts: you, crows. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 68

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‘As you like; since you reject me, let the crows have you,’ and hurried away down the street.

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**Who acts:** you, crows · **What happens:** like, reject, let, have, hurry away · **To what, where:** me, street

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (you, crows), 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:pg3454:3:68
# text = ‘As you like; since you reject me, let the crows have you,’ and hurried away down the street.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reject	reject	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **reject** | present | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | the crows |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hurry away** | past | you *not said here* |  |  | the street |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down street=Trajectory |

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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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