--- title: You shall judge yourself whether I am or no, when I have told you it… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: You shall judge yourself whether I am or no, when I have told you its property and I hope you will value it at as high a price as those I have showed it to already, who had as bad an opinion of me as you. Who acts: You, I, those. 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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, I, those), 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:pg503:49:50 # text = You shall judge yourself whether I am or no, when I have told you its property and I hope you will value it at as high a price as those I have showed it to already, who had as bad an opinion of me as you. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 judge judge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obj _ _ 5 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 7 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 9 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 14 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 14 mark _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 property property NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 iobj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 hope hope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 value value VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 as as ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 34 nsubj _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 already already ADV RB _ 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 41 as as ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 opinion opinion NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nmod _ _ 47 as as ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **judge** | shall | You | yourself | | | | | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent yourself=Value | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive | | I | glass's property | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hope** | present | I | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **value** | future | you | property | | a high price | | | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent it=Theme at price=Value | | 5 | **have** | present | I | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **show** | past | those | property | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to already=Recipient | | 7 | **have** | past | | a bad opinion of me | | | | as you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient | | 8 | **opine** | | | me | | | | | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: of=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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/51/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/)