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title: I do not want your treasures, but,’ she added softly, ‘if you will g… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I do not want your treasures, but,’ she added softly, ‘if you will give me your heart--if you will marry me--I will add twenty kingdoms to the one you have already; you shall have a hundred castles full of gold and five hundred full of silver, and, in short, anything you like to ask me for.’ Who act
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 29

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I do not want your treasures, but,’ she added softly, ‘if you will give me your heart--if you will marry me--I will add twenty kingdoms to the one you have already; you shall have a hundred castles full of gold and five hundred full of silver, and, in short, anything you like to ask me for.’

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**Who acts:** I, Miranda, you, your · **What happens:** not want, add, give, marry, have, like · **To what, where:** treasures, heart, me, twenty kingdoms, one, hundred castles

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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, Miranda, you, your), 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:pg503:31:29
# text = I do not want your treasures, but,’ she added softly, ‘if you will give me your heart--if you will marry me--I will add twenty kingdoms to the one you have already; you shall have a hundred castles full of gold and five hundred full of silver, and, in short, anything you like to ask me for.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
33	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	already	already	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
42	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
47	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
48	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	53	compound	_	_
53	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nmod	_	_
54	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
63	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	44	parataxis	_	_
64	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
65	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	63	acl:relcl	_	_
66	to	to	PART	TO	_	67	mark	_	_
67	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	65	xcomp	_	_
68	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	67	iobj	_	_
69	for	for	ADP	IN	_	67	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | I | your treasures |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot treasure=Theme |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | Miranda |  |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | your heart | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient heart=Theme |
| 4 | **marry** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | future | I | twenty kingdoms | the one |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient to one=Co-Patient |
| 6 | **have** | present | you | the one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 7 | **have** | shall | you | hundred castles |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Patient |
| 8 | **like** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 9 | **ask** *speech: ask* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 10 | **treasure** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | 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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