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title: “There, that is all I can give you; if you don’t like it, go out and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “There, that is all I can give you; if you don’t like it, go out and catch frogs; there are plenty of them in the marsh close by.” Who acts: all, you, plenty. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 13

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“There, that is all I can give you; if you don’t like it, go out and catch frogs; there are plenty of them in the marsh close by.”

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**Who acts:** all, you, plenty · **What happens:** give, not like, go out, catch, be · **To what, where:** you, shell, frogs, marsh

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, you, plenty), 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:pg503:22:13
# text = “There, that is all I can give you; if you don’t like it, go out and catch frogs; there are plenty of them in the marsh close by.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj:outer	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | can | all |  | you | there |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **like** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | you | shell |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 3 | **go out** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **catch** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* | frogs |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Theme |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* | present | plenty of frogs |  |  | the marsh; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in marsh=Location |

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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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