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title: You must know that I am very particular about what I eat, and if the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You must know that I am very particular about what I eat, and if there is one thing that I fancy above all others, it is a plump, tender little mouse. Who acts: You, I, one thing, reward. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 68

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You must know that I am very particular about what I eat, and if there is one thing that I fancy above all others, it is a plump, tender little mouse.

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**Who acts:** You, I, one thing, reward · **What happens:** know, be, eat, fancy · **To what, where:** one thing, others, plump tender little mouse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, I, one thing, reward), 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:pg540:22:68
# text = You must know that I am very particular about what I eat, and if there is one thing that I fancy above all others, it is a plump, tender little mouse.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fancy	fancy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	above	above	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
30	plump	plump	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **know** | must | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | particular *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one thing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fancy** | present | I | one thing |  | all others |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is a** | present | reward | a plump tender little mouse |  |  |  |  | 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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