--- title: “Well, then, since you have so little breeding, and are so disobligi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Well, then, since you have so little breeding, and are so disobliging, I give you for a gift that at every word you speak there shall come out of your mouth a snake or a toad.” Who acts: you, Fairy, gift. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Fairy, gift), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:38:34 # text = “Well, then, since you have so little breeding, and are so disobliging, I give you for a gift that at every word you speak there shall come out of your mouth a snake or a toad.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 since since SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 breeding breeding NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 disobliging disoblige VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 31 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl:relcl _ _ 33 out out ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ” " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | little breeding | | | then | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breeding=Patient | | 2 | **disoblige** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **give** *in a quote* | present | the Fairy *= fairy* | | you | | | for a gift | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Theme for gift=Asset | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | you | every word *not said here* | | there | | | tree rules | | 5 | **come out** *in a quote* | shall | a gift | a snake or a toad | | every word | | of your mouth; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/38/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/38/35/) - ↑ back to [Toads and Diamonds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/38/)