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title: ‘It is not possible that _you_ should want for friends, you charming… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘It is not possible that _you_ should want for friends, you charming creature,’ said the Queen, kissing her. Who acts: It, you, Queen. 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 88

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‘It is not possible that \_you\_ should want for friends, you charming creature,’ said the Queen, kissing her.

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**Who acts:** It, you, Queen · **What happens:** not be, want, charm, say, kiss · **To what, where:** creature, Queen · **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 (It, you, Queen), 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:pg540:22:88
# text = ‘It is not possible that _you_ should want for friends, you charming creature,’ said the Queen, kissing her.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
17	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	kissing	kiss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | should | you |  |  |  |  | for friends | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **charm** | gerund | you | creature |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus creature=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **kiss** | gerund | the Queen *not said here* | Queen |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |

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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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