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title: Wouldst not thou be glad, my dear, to have the same gift given thee? — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Wouldst not thou be glad, my dear, to have the same gift given thee? Who acts: thou, same gift. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 23

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Wouldst not thou be glad, my dear, to have the same gift given thee?

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**Who acts:** thou, same gift · **What happens:** not be, be, have, give · **To what, where:** same gift, thee

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, same gift), 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:pg503:38:23
# text = Wouldst not thou be glad, my dear, to have the same gift given thee?
1	Wouldst	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | would | thou |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | the same gift |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | participle | the same gift *not said here* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |

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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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