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title: It is all that I can do to find clothes and bedding for myself, and… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It is all that I can do to find clothes and bedding for myself, and wretched they are.’ Who acts: youth, I, clothes. 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 87

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It is all that I can do to find clothes and bedding for myself, and wretched they are.’

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**Who acts:** youth, I, clothes · **What happens:** be, do, find · **To what, where:** that, clothes

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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 (youth, I, clothes), 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:pg540:9:87
# text = It is all that I can do to find clothes and bedding for myself, and wretched they are.’
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	bedding	bedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | youth | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | clothes and bedding |  |  |  | for myself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme for myself=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **is** | present | clothes |  |  |  |  | wretched *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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