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title: The only thing you want, in order to become as fat as a pig, is a wi… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The only thing you want, in order to become as fat as a pig, is a wife that can bring you broad, rich lands. Who acts: you, only thing, wife. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 11

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The only thing you want, in order to become as fat as a pig, is a wife that can bring you broad, rich lands.

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**Who acts:** you, only thing, wife · **What happens:** want, become, be, bring · **To what, where:** only thing, wife, you

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, only thing, wife), 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:pg540:40:11
# text = The only thing you want, in order to become as fat as a pig, is a wife that can bring you broad, rich lands.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	10	mark	_	_
8	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	fixed	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	become	become	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | you | the only thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | fat *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the only thing | a wife and rich lands |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | can | a wife and rich lands |  | you |  |  | broad *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |

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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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