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title: ‘You might spend the rest of your life over that without doing any g… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You might spend the rest of your life over that without doing any good, but as you are young, and quite the prettiest creature I have seen for a long time, I will marry you if you like, and I will give you those cats and mice that you see there for your own. Who acts: You, I, prettiest creature. A 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 93

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‘You might spend the rest of your life over that without doing any good, but as you are young, and quite the prettiest creature I have seen for a long time, I will marry you if you like, and I will give you those cats and mice that you see there for your own.

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**Who acts:** You, I, prettiest creature · **What happens:** spend, do, be, see, marry, like · **To what, where:** rest, that, any, prettiest creature, you, cats

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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 (You, I, prettiest creature), 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:pg540:35:93
# text = ‘You might spend the rest of your life over that without doing any good, but as you are young, and quite the prettiest creature I have seen for a long time, I will marry you if you like, and I will give you those cats and mice that you see there for your own.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
12	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	obj	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
24	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	27	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	47	iobj	_	_
49	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	50	det	_	_
50	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	_
53	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	obj	_	_
54	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	_
56	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	55	advmod	_	_
57	for	for	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | might | You | the rest of your life |  | that |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | You *not said here* | any |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | present · perfect | I | quite prettiest creature *not said here* |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus |
| 5 | **marry** | future | quite prettiest creature | you |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 6 | **like** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **give** | future | I | that cats and mice | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient cat=Theme |
| 8 | **see** | present | you | that cats and mice |  | there |  | for your own | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=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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