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title: ‘Little simpleton, you should have everything heart can desire.’ — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Little simpleton, you should have everything heart can desire.’ Who acts: you, Little simpleton. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 4

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‘Little simpleton, you should have everything heart can desire.’

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**Who acts:** you, Little simpleton · **What happens:** have, desire · **To what, where:** everything heart

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Little simpleton), 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:pg540:36:4
# text = ‘Little simpleton, you should have everything heart can desire.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	simpleton	simpleton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	compound	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	desire	desire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | should | you | everything heart |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 2 | **desire** | can | Little simpleton |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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