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title: ‘Let it be in two months,’ answered Don Giovanni, for the time was n… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Let it be in two months,’ answered Don Giovanni, for the time was nearly up that the devil had fixed, and he wanted a whole month to himself to wash off the dirt of the past three years. Who acts: neck, devil. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, with it
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 65

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‘Let it be in two months,’ answered Don Giovanni, for the time was nearly up that the devil had fixed, and he wanted a whole month to himself to wash off the dirt of the past three years.

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**Who acts:** neck, devil · **What happens:** let, be, answer, fix, want, wash off · **To what, where:** neck, Don, devil, dirt · **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 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neck, devil), 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:pg5615:39:65
# text = ‘Let it be in two months,’ answered Don Giovanni, for the time was nearly up that the devil had fixed, and he wanted a whole month to himself to wash off the dirt of the past three years.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	Giovanni	Giovanni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
36	off	off	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive |  | neck |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | infinitive | neck *not said here* |  |  |  | month |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Don |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fix** | past · perfect · passive |  | the devil |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **want** | past | devil |  | Don |  | month |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent to himself=Attribute |
| 6 | **wash off** | to-infinitive | devil *not said here* | the dirt of the past three years |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirt=Patient |

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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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