--- title: ‘I can easily eat it myself; but if you will have something you can… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I can easily eat it myself; but if you will have something you can have a whack of my stick,’ and with that she raised it in the air and struck the bergman over the head with it. Who acts: I, you, world. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, world), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg5615:31:67 # text = ‘I can easily eat it myself; but if you will have something you can have a whack of my stick,’ and with that she raised it in the air and struck the bergman over the head with it. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 easily easily ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 5 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 14 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obj _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 whack whack NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 obl _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 bergman bergman NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 over over ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | can | I | dinner | | | | myself *obl:unmarked*; easily *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | something | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | | 3 | **have** | can | you | a whack of my stick | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whack=Patient | | 4 | **raise** | past | world | dinner | | the air | | with that | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in air=Destination | | 5 | **strike** | past | world *not said here* | the bergman | | the head | | with dinner | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bergman=Patient with it=Instrument | | 6 | **whack** | | | my stick | | | | | nom whack «event transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/31/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/31/68/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/31/)