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title: “Lord Mayor of London!” said he to himself, “what would not one endu… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Lord Mayor of London!” said he to himself, “what would not one endure to be Lord Mayor of London, and ride in such a fine coach? Who acts: Lord Mayor, one. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 31

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“Lord Mayor of London!” said he to himself, “what would not one endure to be Lord Mayor of London, and ride in such a fine coach?

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**Who acts:** Lord Mayor, one · **What happens:** say, not endure, be, ride · **To what, where:** Mayor, Lord Mayor, fine coach · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord Mayor, one), 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:pg503:29:31
# text = “Lord Mayor of London!” said he to himself, “what would not one endure to be Lord Mayor of London, and ride in such a fine coach?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
18	endure	endure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	32	det:predet	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Lord Mayor of London |  | Mayor |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **endure** *in a quote* | would | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Circumstance |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | Lord Mayor |  |  |  | of London | tree rules |
| 4 | **ride** *in a quote* | present | Lord Mayor of London *not said here* |  |  | such fine coach |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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