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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 43

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Here I have nothing of my own to offer you, but if you would only consent to come home with me, how gladly would I give you anything that might happen to take your fancy.’

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**Who acts:** I, you, your · **What happens:** have, offer, consent, come, give, happen · **To what, where:** nothing, you, anything, fancy

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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, you, your), 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:pg3454:5:43
# text = Here I have nothing of my own to offer you, but if you would only consent to come home with me, how gladly would I give you anything that might happen to take your fancy.’
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	consent	consent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
25	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	iobj	_	_
30	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	28	obj	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
32	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | nothing |  | here |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 2 | **offer** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | you |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **consent** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with me; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | would | I | anything | you |  |  | gladly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient anything=Theme |
| 6 | **happen** | might |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | your fancy |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme |
| 8 | **fancy** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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