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title: ‘One would think that I and my crutch were put in on purpose to make… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘One would think that I and my crutch were put in on purpose to make that slim, charming young shepherdess in the next picture look prettier by contrast. Who acts: One. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 20

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‘One would think that I and my crutch were put in on purpose to make that slim, charming young shepherdess in the next picture look prettier by contrast.

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**Who acts:** One · **What happens:** think, put in, make, charm, look · **To what, where:** I, purpose, that, young shepherdess, next picture · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), 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:pg540:35:20
# text = ‘One would think that I and my crutch were put in on purpose to make that slim, charming young shepherdess in the next picture look prettier by contrast.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	crutch	crutch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obj	_	_
18	slim	slim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
28	prettier	pretty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	xcomp	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	contrast	contrast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | would | One |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **put in** | past · passive |  | I |  | purpose |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on purpose=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | that |  |  |  | slim *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset that=Product |
| 4 | **charm** | gerund |  | young shepherdess |  | the next picture |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus shepherdess=Experiencer |
| 5 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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