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title: I find you don’t know the power a husband has over a wife; and yours… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 25

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I find you don’t know the power a husband has over a wife; and yours would show that her love to you was very indifferent if she, with the power she has of a fairy, should refuse you so trifling a request as this I desire you to ask of her for my sake.”

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**Who acts:** I, you, husband, yours, love, wife · **What happens:** find, not know, have, show, be, refuse · **To what, where:** power, you, request · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, husband, yours), 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:pg503:52:25
# text = I find you don’t know the power a husband has over a wife; and yours would show that her love to you was very indifferent if she, with the power she has of a fairy, should refuse you so trifling a request as this I desire you to ask of her for my sake.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	ccomp	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
42	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	trifling	trifle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	50	advcl	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	as	as	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	obl	_	_
49	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	parataxis	_	_
51	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	advcl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	_
56	for	for	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | you | the power |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | a husband |  |  |  |  | over a wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **show** | would | yours |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | wife's love to you |  |  |  |  | indifferent *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | present | wife | the power *not said here* |  |  |  | of a fairy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 7 | **refuse** | should | the power | you |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 8 | **trifle** | gerund | I *not said here* | a request |  |  |  | as this | tree rules |
| 9 | **desire** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |
| 10 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of wife; for my sake | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of she=Recipient |
| 11 | **love** |  | wife |  |  |  |  | to you | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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