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title: My whole fortune depends upon it; and even if I could in such a shor… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: My whole fortune depends upon it; and even if I could in such a short time find a dog pretty enough to gain me a kingdom, where should I find a horse who would carry me all that way in three days?” Who acts: whole fortune, I, horse. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 59

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My whole fortune depends upon it; and even if I could in such a short time find a dog pretty enough to gain me a kingdom, where should I find a horse who would carry me all that way in three days?”

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**Who acts:** whole fortune, I, horse · **What happens:** depend, find, gain, carry · **To what, where:** dog, kingdom, me, horse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole fortune, I, horse), 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:pg503:23:59
# text = My whole fortune depends upon it; and even if I could in such a short time find a dog pretty enough to gain me a kingdom, where should I find a horse who would carry me all that way in three days?”
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	17	det:predet	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl:relcl	_	_
38	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	41	det:predet	_	_
40	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
41	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl:unmarked	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depend** | present | My whole fortune |  |  |  |  | upon memory | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | could |  | a dog |  |  | time | enough *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent dog=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **gain** | to-infinitive |  | a kingdom | me |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary kingdom=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | should | I | a horse |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic |
| 5 | **carry** | would | a horse | me |  |  | day | all way *obl:unmarked* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

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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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