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title: ‘You poor thing! what is there to see here compared with what _we_ h… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You poor thing! what is there to see here compared with what _we_ have seen at the palace? Who acts: You, we. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 79

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‘You poor thing! what is there to see here compared with what \_we\_ have seen at the palace?

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**Who acts:** You, we · **What happens:** thing, see, compare · **To what, where:** poor thing, palace

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, we), 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:pg540:14:79
# text = ‘You poor thing! what is there to see here compared with what _we_ have seen at the palace?
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thing** |  | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **compare** | present · passive |  | poor thing |  | here |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with what=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **see** | perfect | we |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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