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title: ‘Certainly it is becoming in _you_ to object to that,’ said King Gru… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Certainly it is becoming in _you_ to object to that,’ said King Grumpy, ‘since you are ugly enough to frighten anyone yourself.’ Who acts: glance, Grumpy, you. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 14

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‘Certainly it is becoming in \_you\_ to object to that,’ said King Grumpy, ‘since you are ugly enough to frighten anyone yourself.’

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**Who acts:** glance, Grumpy, you · **What happens:** become, say, be, frighten · **To what, where:** object, anyone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (glance, Grumpy, you), 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:pg540:34:14
# text = ‘Certainly it is becoming in _you_ to object to that,’ said King Grumpy, ‘since you are ugly enough to frighten anyone yourself.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:desc	_	_
18	Grumpy	Grumpy	PROPN	NNP	_	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
25	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	frighten	frighten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
28	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	obj	_	_
29	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present · progressive | glance | object to that |  |  |  | in you *result*; certainly *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in you=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Grumpy  King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | enough, ugly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **frighten** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus anyone=Experiencer yourself=Result |

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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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