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title: ‘Fine wares to sell, fine wares to sell!’ — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Fine wares to sell, fine wares to sell!’ A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 189

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‘Fine wares to sell, fine wares to sell!’

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**What happens:** sell

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg540:47:189
# text = ‘Fine wares to sell, fine wares to sell!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wares	ware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	wares	ware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sell** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |

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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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