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title: ‘And for that very same reason I ought to be able to talk more than… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘And for that very same reason I ought to be able to talk more than you, for I was a Princess,’ replied the Grasshopper. Who acts: I, Princess. 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 59

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‘And for that very same reason I ought to be able to talk more than you, for I was a Princess,’ replied the Grasshopper.

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**Who acts:** I, Princess · **What happens:** be, talk, reply · **To what, where:** more, Grasshopper

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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 (I, Princess), 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:pg540:36:59
# text = ‘And for that very same reason I ought to be able to talk more than you, for I was a Princess,’ replied the Grasshopper.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	obj	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
26	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | ought | I |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent more=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | for a Princess | tree rules |
| 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | a Princess *not said here* | the Grasshopper |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grasshopper=Topic |

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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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