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title: You look like succeeding—you who have never done anything else but l… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You look like succeeding—you who have never done anything else but lie and poke about among the ashes!’ said they. Who acts: You, ashes. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 45

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You look like succeeding—you who have never done anything else but lie and poke about among the ashes!’ said they.

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**Who acts:** You, ashes · **What happens:** look, succeed, not do, lie, poke about, say · **To what, where:** anything, ashes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, ashes), 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:pg540:49:45
# text = You look like succeeding—you who have never done anything else but lie and poke about among the ashes!’ said they.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	succeeding	succeed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	ccomp	_	_
11	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	else	else	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	poke	poke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	among	among	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **succeed** | gerund | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **do** | present · perfect | you | anything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
| 4 | **lie** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **poke about** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the ashes |  | about *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent among ash=Location |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | ashes *= ash* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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