--- title: ‘Are you not ashamed, girl, to waste your time over a man who is as… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Are you not ashamed, girl, to waste your time over a man who is as poor as a rat, when there are a dozen more who would be only too happy to buy you rings of silver, if you would let them?’ Who acts: you, man, dozen. 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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 (you, man, dozen), 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:pg3454:32:34 # text = ‘Are you not ashamed, girl, to waste your time over a man who is as poor as a rat, when there are a dozen more who would be only too happy to buy you rings of silver, if you would let them?’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 ashamed ashamed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 waste waste VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 over over ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 as as ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 when when SCONJ WRB _ 26 mark _ _ 25 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 26 expl _ _ 26 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 dozen dozen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nsubj _ _ 29 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 conj _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 31 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 cop _ _ 33 only only ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 too too ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 parataxis _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 iobj _ _ 39 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 if if SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 44 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 parataxis _ _ 47 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ? ? PUNCT . _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | you | | | | | girl *vocative*; ashamed *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **waste** | to-infinitive | | | | | time | over a man | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | a man | | | | | as a rat; poor *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | present | a dozen | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | would | | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **buy** | to-infinitive | | rings of silver | you | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary ring=Theme | | 7 | **let** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | you | rings *= ring* | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/32/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/32/35/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/32/)