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title: As if anybody you had sent could not have done just as much!” — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As if anybody you had sent could not have done just as much!” Who acts: anybody. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 180

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As if anybody you had sent could not have done just as much!”

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**Who acts:** anybody · **What happens:** send, not do · **To what, where:** you

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anybody), 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:pg503:28:180
# text = As if anybody you had sent could not have done just as much!”
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
3	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · perfect · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **do** | could · perfect | anybody |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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