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title: ‘Well, madam! will you wager your thimble and your golden needle tha… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Well, madam! will you wager your thimble and your golden needle that I am bringing you the best news you could possibly hear?’ Who acts: you, thimble. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 142

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‘Well, madam! will you wager your thimble and your golden needle that I am bringing you the best news you could possibly hear?’

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**Who acts:** you, thimble · **What happens:** wager, bring, hear · **To what, where:** thimble, best news, you

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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 (you, thimble), 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:pg540:22:142
# text = ‘Well, madam! will you wager your thimble and your golden needle that I am bringing you the best news you could possibly hear?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wager	wager	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	thimble	thimble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wager** | future | you | your thimble and your golden needle |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thimble=Recipient |
| 2 | **bring** | present · progressive | your thimble and your golden needle | the best news | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination news=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | could | you | the best news *not said here* |  |  |  | possibly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus |

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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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