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title: You have nothing else to do but to give me a bag and get a pair of b… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You have nothing else to do but to give me a bag and get a pair of boots made for me that I may scamper through the dirt and the brambles, and you shall see that you have not so bad a portion in me as you imagine.” Who acts: You, I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Cat;
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 10

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You have nothing else to do but to give me a bag and get a pair of boots made for me that I may scamper through the dirt and the brambles, and you shall see that you have not so bad a portion in me as you imagine.”

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**Who acts:** You, I · **What happens:** have, do, give, get, make, scamper · **To what, where:** nothing, bag, me, pair, boots, dirt

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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:pg503:21:10
# text = You have nothing else to do but to give me a bag and get a pair of boots made for me that I may scamper through the dirt and the brambles, and you shall see that you have not so bad a portion in me as you imagine.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	_
4	else	else	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	scamper	scamper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	_
26	through	through	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	brambles	bramble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
39	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
41	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	ccomp	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nmod	_	_
47	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	imagine	imagine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | You | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | a bag | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bag=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive | You *not said here* | a pair of boots |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pair=Stimulus |
| 5 | **make** | participle |  | boots *not said here* |  |  |  | for me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for i=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **scamper** | may | I |  |  | the dirt and the brambles |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **see** | shall | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **imagine** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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