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title: ‘Oh, yes; just as readily you as anyone else,’ said the boy. — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh, yes; just as readily you as anyone else,’ said the boy. Who acts: boy. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 20

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‘Oh, yes; just as readily you as anyone else,’ said the boy.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** say · **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 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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:pg5615:24:20
# text = ‘Oh, yes; just as readily you as anyone else,’ said the boy.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	_
12	else	else	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the boy |  |  |  |  | readily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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