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title: But, so that you may not freeze, here are my mother’s great fur glov… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, so that you may not freeze, here are my mother’s great fur gloves; they will come up to your elbows. Who acts: you, great fur gloves, gloves. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 47

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But, so that you may not freeze, here are my mother’s great fur gloves; they will come up to your elbows.

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**Who acts:** you, great fur gloves, gloves · **What happens:** not freeze, be, come up · **To what, where:** elbows

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, great fur gloves, gloves), 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:pg5615:10:47
# text = But, so that you may not freeze, here are my mother’s great fur gloves; they will come up to your elbows.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	8	mark	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	freeze	freeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
11	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	elbows	elbow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **freeze** | may | you |  |  | here |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **does** | present | my mother's great fur gloves |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come up** | future | gloves *= glove* |  |  | your elbows |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to elbow=Initial\_Location |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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