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title: ‘Oh, what a fool you are!’ said she, ‘can’t you direct him straight… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh, what a fool you are!’ said she, ‘can’t you direct him straight forward, south through the wood? Who acts: you, road. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 72

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‘Oh, what a fool you are!’ said she, ‘can’t you direct him straight forward, south through the wood?

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**Who acts:** you, road · **What happens:** be, say, not direct · **To what, where:** fool, squire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, road), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg5615:1422`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:13:72
# text = ‘Oh, what a fool you are!’ said she, ‘can’t you direct him straight forward, south through the wood?
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	6	det:predet	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
15	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	direct	direct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	south	south	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | you | what fool |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | road |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **direct** | can | you | squire |  |  |  | forward, south *property* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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