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title: Perhaps I could bear even that if I had any money, but I assure you… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps I could bear even that if I had any money, but I assure you that the expenses of the wedding have completely ruined me. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 44

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Perhaps I could bear even that if I had any money, but I assure you that the expenses of the wedding have completely ruined me.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** bear, have, assure, ruin · **To what, where:** money, you, expenses

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (I), 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:pg540:4:44
# text = Perhaps I could bear even that if I had any money, but I assure you that the expenses of the wedding have completely ruined me.
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	assure	assure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	expenses	expense	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | could | I |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I | any money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 3 | **assure** | present | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 4 | **ruin** | present · perfect · passive |  | the expenses of the wedding |  |  |  | completely *property* | tree rules |

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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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