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title: ‘If I chose I could make any one of my scullions richer and more pow… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘If I chose I could make any one of my scullions richer and more powerful than you. Who acts: I. 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 28

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‘If I chose I could make any one of my scullions richer and more powerful than you.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** choose, make · **To what, where:** one

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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 (I), 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:pg503:31:28
# text = ‘If I chose I could make any one of my scullions richer and more powerful than you.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	scullions	scullion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | could | I | any one of my scullions |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product |

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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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