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title: “‘Call me what you like,’ I said impatiently; ‘but what is it that y… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “‘Call me what you like,’ I said impatiently; ‘but what is it that you want--my crown, or my cities, or my treasures?’ Who acts: you, powerful fairy, ant, my. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 26

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“‘Call me what you like,’ I said impatiently; ‘but what is it that you want--my crown, or my cities, or my treasures?’

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**Who acts:** you, powerful fairy, ant, my · **What happens:** call, like, ', say, be, want · **To what, where:** powerful fairy, ant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, powerful fairy, ant, my), 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:pg503:31:26
# text = “‘Call me what you like,’ I said impatiently; ‘but what is it that you want--my crown, or my cities, or my treasures?’
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
12	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:outer	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | a powerful fairy like myself *= fairy* |  |  |  | my cities *obl*; my treasures *obl* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme what=Result |
| 2 | **like** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **'** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | a powerful fairy like myself *= fairy* |  |  |  |  | impatiently *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | ant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **want** *in a quote* | present | ant |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **crown** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **treasure** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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