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title: “Will you give me your youngest daughter?” said the White Bear; “if… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Will you give me your youngest daughter?” said the White Bear; “if you will, you shall be as rich as you are now poor.” Who acts: you, White Bear. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 7

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“Will you give me your youngest daughter?” said the White Bear; “if you will, you shall be as rich as you are now poor.”

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**Who acts:** you, White Bear · **What happens:** give, say, be · **To what, where:** youngest daughter, White Bear · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, White Bear), 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:pg503:4:7
# text = “Will you give me your youngest daughter?” said the White Bear; “if you will, you shall be as rich as you are now poor.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
30	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | future | you | your youngest daughter | the White Bear *= bear* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient daughter=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the White Bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | shall · future | you |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  | now | poor *property* | tree rules |

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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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