--- title: Look at your brother, what pains he takes; but all the money I’ve sp… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Look at your brother, what pains he takes; but all the money I’ve spent on your education is thrown away.” Who acts: you, brother, father, I. 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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, brother, father, I), 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:pg503:13:9 # text = Look at your brother, what pains he takes; but all the money I’ve spent on your education is thrown away.” 1 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 nsubj _ _ 7 pains pain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 12 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 14 det:predet _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ’ve have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 acl _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 education education NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ _ 23 away away ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ” " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | at your brother | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at brother=Theme | | 2 | **pain** | present | your brother | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | present | father | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | present | I | all money *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | | 5 | **spend** | participle | | all money *not said here* | | | | on your education *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent on education=Goal | | 6 | **throw away** | present · passive | | all money | | | | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **educate** | | your | | | | | | nom education «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/10/) - ↑ back to [The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/)