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title: ‘Oh! if you only would thrown me down some of those delicious things… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh! if you only would thrown me down some of those delicious things, I should be so grateful,’ answered the shark. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 27

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‘Oh! if you only would thrown me down some of those delicious things, I should be so grateful,’ answered the shark.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** throw down, be, answer · **To what, where:** you, shark

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg3454:5:27
# text = ‘Oh! if you only would thrown me down some of those delicious things, I should be so grateful,’ answered the shark.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
24	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw down** | would · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | should | I |  |  |  |  | grateful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  | the shark |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shark=Eventuality |

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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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