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title: If there is such a thing in your garret just throw it down to me, an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If there is such a thing in your garret just throw it down to me, and in return I will promise that your little daughter shall be well taken care of.’ Who acts: thing, you, I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 69

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If there is such a thing in your garret just throw it down to me, and in return I will promise that your little daughter shall be well taken care of.’

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**Who acts:** thing, you, I · **What happens:** be, throw down, promise, take · **To what, where:** garret, me, return, little daughter

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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 (thing, you, I), 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:pg540:22:69
# text = If there is such a thing in your garret just throw it down to me, and in return I will promise that your little daughter shall be well taken care of.’
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	6	det:predet	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	garret	garret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
29	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
30	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
31	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | such thing |  |  | your garret; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garret=Location |
| 2 | **throw down** | imperative | you *not said here* | garret | me |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Destination |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | future | I |  |  | return |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | shall · passive |  | your little daughter |  |  |  | well *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme care=Destination |

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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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