--- title: ‘Well, it’s very evident that I have lost nothing by letting you suc… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Well, it’s very evident that I have lost nothing by letting you suck all my mares,’ said the lad to the yearling; ‘but now you are quite big enough, and must come away with me.’ Who acts: lad, I, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg540:38:2 # text = ‘Well, it’s very evident that I have lost nothing by letting you suck all my mares,’ said the lad to the yearling; ‘but now you are quite big enough, and must come away with me.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 evident evident ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 ccomp _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 12 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 11 obj _ _ 13 by by SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 letting let VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 suck suck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 19 det:predet _ _ 18 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 mares mare NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 yearling yearling NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 29 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 quite quite ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 parataxis _ _ 36 enough enough ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 41 away away ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | lad | | | | | evident *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **lose** | present · perfect | I | nothing | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | | 3 | **let** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **suck** | infinitive | you | my mares | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mare=Source | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the lad | the yearling | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lad=Topic to yearling=Recipient | | 6 | **is** | present | you | | | | now | big, enough *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **come away** | must | you *not said here* | | | | | with me; away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/38/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/38/3/) - ↑ back to [The Three Dwarfs, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/38/)