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title: I am sure that bread and water shared with Fanfaronade will please m… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I am sure that bread and water shared with Fanfaronade will please me far better than roast chicken and sweetmeats with anybody else.’ Who acts: I, bread. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 58

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I am sure that bread and water shared with Fanfaronade will please me far better than roast chicken and sweetmeats with anybody else.’

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**Who acts:** I, bread · **What happens:** be, share, please · **To what, where:** bread, me

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bread), 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:pg540:3:58
# text = I am sure that bread and water shared with Fanfaronade will please me far better than roast chicken and sweetmeats with anybody else.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
5	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	nmod	_	_
23	else	else	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **share** | participle |  | bread and water *not said here* |  |  |  | with Fanfaronade | tree rules |
| 3 | **please** | future | bread and water | me |  |  |  | good *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |

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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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