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title: ‘When anyone is as beautiful as you,’ said the shirt-collar, ‘is not… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘When anyone is as beautiful as you,’ said the shirt-collar, ‘is not that encouragement enough?’ Who acts: anyone, ‘. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 9

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‘When anyone is as beautiful as you,’ said the shirt-collar, ‘is not that encouragement enough?’

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**Who acts:** anyone, ‘ · **What happens:** be, say, not be · **To what, where:** shirt collar, encouragement · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anyone, ‘), 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:pg5615:6:9
# text = ‘When anyone is as beautiful as you,’ said the shirt-collar, ‘is not that encouragement enough?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
3	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	‘	‘	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	encouragement	encouragement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
22	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | anyone |  |  |  |  | as you; beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the shirt collar |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent collar=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | ‘ | that encouragement |  |  |  | enough *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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