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title: I see nothing to eat, and though you may be very charming, the sight… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I see nothing to eat, and though you may be very charming, the sight of you does not prevent me from famishing.’ Who acts: I, you. 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 72

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I see nothing to eat, and though you may be very charming, the sight of you does not prevent me from famishing.’

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** see, eat, be, not prevent, famish, sight · **To what, where:** nothing, me, you

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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, you), 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:pg540:4:72
# text = I see nothing to eat, and though you may be very charming, the sight of you does not prevent me from famishing.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
8	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	charming	charming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	famishing	famish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | I | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | may | you |  |  |  |  | charming *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **prevent** | present · do-support | I *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Theme |
| 5 | **famish** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | you |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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