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title: I am a very old friend of yours, and I am truly glad to find you at… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I am a very old friend of yours, and I am truly glad to find you at last; but you might look nicer than you do in that old gown, which is only fit for a kitchen-maid. Who acts: I, you, old gown. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 132

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I am a very old friend of yours, and I am truly glad to find you at last; but you might look nicer than you do in that old gown, which is only fit for a kitchen-maid.

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**Who acts:** I, you, old gown · **What happens:** be, find, look, do · **To what, where:** old friend, you, last, old gown

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. 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, old gown), 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:pg540:22:132
# text = I am a very old friend of yours, and I am truly glad to find you at last; but you might look nicer than you do in that old gown, which is only fit for a kitchen-maid.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
25	nicer	nice	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	xcomp	_	_
26	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	only	only	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	acl:relcl	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | yours's old friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | glad, truly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Theme at last=Asset |
| 4 | **look** | might | you |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **do** | present | you |  |  | that old gown |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | that old gown |  |  |  |  | for a kitchen maid; fit *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 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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