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title: ‘You are such a handsome young man you will surely not refuse an old… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You are such a handsome young man you will surely not refuse an old woman a few pence.’ Who acts: You. 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 74

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‘You are such a handsome young man you will surely not refuse an old woman a few pence.’

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** be, not refuse · **To what, where:** handsome young man, old woman

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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 (You), 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:pg5615:24:74
# text = ‘You are such a handsome young man you will surely not refuse an old woman a few pence.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	8	det:predet	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pence	pence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	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 | such handsome young man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **refuse** | future | you | a old woman |  |  |  | surely *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 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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