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title: But she answered: ‘No, I won’t, it’s hardly enough for myself; so ca… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But she answered: ‘No, I won’t, it’s hardly enough for myself; so catch me giving you any.’ Who acts: first. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 50

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But she answered: ‘No, I won’t, it’s hardly enough for myself; so catch me giving you any.’

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**Who acts:** first · **What happens:** answer, catch, give · **To what, where:** me, any, you

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (first), 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:pg540:37:50
# text = But she answered: ‘No, I won’t, it’s hardly enough for myself; so catch me giving you any.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | first |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **catch** | infinitive | first *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | first *not said here* | any | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient any=Theme |

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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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