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title: I consent to your going, but, believe me, I can give you no stronger… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I consent to your going, but, believe me, I can give you no stronger proof of my love than by so doing.” Who acts: I, your, 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 83

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I consent to your going, but, believe me, I can give you no stronger proof of my love than by so doing.”

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**Who acts:** I, your, my · **What happens:** consent, go, believe, give, do, proof · **To what, where:** me, stronger proof, you, love

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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, your, 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:pg503:31:83
# text = I consent to your going, but, believe me, I can give you no stronger proof of my love than by so doing.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	consent	consent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	believe	believe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
17	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consent** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | your |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **believe** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 4 | **give** | can | I | no stronger proof of my love | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient proof=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **proof** |  |  | my love |  |  |  |  | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **love** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling 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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