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title: “I will show you something wonderful; only do you gather up sticks w… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I will show you something wonderful; only do you gather up sticks while I kindle a fire.” Who acts: false uncle, you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 20

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“I will show you something wonderful; only do you gather up sticks while I kindle a fire.”

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**Who acts:** false uncle, you · **What happens:** show, gather up, kindle · **To what, where:** something, you, sticks, fire

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (false uncle, you), 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:pg503:12:20
# text = “I will show you something wonderful; only do you gather up sticks while I kindle a fire.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
7	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	kindle	kindle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** *in a quote* | future | the false uncle *= uncle* | something | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic |
| 2 | **gather up** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | sticks |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 3 | **kindle** *in a quote* | infinitive | the false uncle *= uncle* | a fire |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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