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title: First, I shall say, “Ugly are you, but you shall become so ugly that… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: First, I shall say, “Ugly are you, but you shall become so ugly that there will not be an uglier one on earth.” Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 70

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First, I shall say, “Ugly are you, but you shall become so ugly that there will not be an uglier one on earth.”

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** say, be, become · **To what, where:** ugly uglier one, earth · **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 31. 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), 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:pg5615:31:70
# text = First, I shall say, “Ugly are you, but you shall become so ugly that there will not be an uglier one on earth.”
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Ugly	ugly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	uglier	ugly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | I |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **does** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | ugly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **become** *in a quote* | shall | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a ugly uglier one |  | earth |  |  | 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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