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title: ‘You will have to let me have your night-gown too,’ he said, ‘for I… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You will have to let me have your night-gown too,’ he said, ‘for I begin to see that the sheet won’t be enough.’ Who acts: You, me, father, I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 244

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‘You will have to let me have your night-gown too,’ he said, ‘for I begin to see that the sheet won’t be enough.’

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**Who acts:** You, me, father, I, sheet · **What happens:** have, let, say, begin, see, not be · **To what, where:** me, night gown · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, me, father, 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:pg540:9:244
# text = ‘You will have to let me have your night-gown too,’ he said, ‘for I begin to see that the sheet won’t be enough.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sheet	sheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
31	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | future | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | infinitive | me *not said here* | your night gown |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **begin** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **not** **is** | future | the sheet |  |  |  |  | enough *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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