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title: ‘It’s all the same to me what trade I follow,’ said the youth, ‘for… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘It’s all the same to me what trade I follow,’ said the youth, ‘for when I came away from home my father gave me leave to take to any trade I fancied.’ Who acts: mind, I, father. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 30

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‘It’s all the same to me what trade I follow,’ said the youth, ‘for when I came away from home my father gave me leave to take to any trade I fancied.’

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**Who acts:** mind, I, father · **What happens:** be, follow, say, come away, give, leave · **To what, where:** me, trade, youth, home · **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 (mind, I, father), 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:pg540:9:30
# text = ‘It’s all the same to me what trade I follow,’ said the youth, ‘for when I came away from home my father gave me leave to take to any trade I fancied.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	10	det	_	_
10	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
31	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | mind |  | me |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | present | I | what trade *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the youth |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic |
| 4 | **come away** | past | I |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | past | my father |  | me | home |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **leave** | infinitive | my father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **take** | to-infinitive | my father *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to any trade *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to trade=Result |
| 8 | **fancy** | past | I | any trade *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trade=Stimulus |

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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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