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title: I am so hungry, and it will go badly with me in the future, for I se… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I am so hungry, and it will go badly with me in the future, for I see here not an apple or pear or fruit of any kind--nothing but vegetables everywhere.’ Who acts: I, little. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 67

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I am so hungry, and it will go badly with me in the future, for I see here not an apple or pear or fruit of any kind--nothing but vegetables everywhere.’

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**Who acts:** I, little · **What happens:** be, go, see · **To what, where:** future, apple

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, little), 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:pg640:10:67
# text = I am so hungry, and it will go badly with me in the future, for I see here not an apple or pear or fruit of any kind--nothing but vegetables everywhere.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	pear	pear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	conj	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
35	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | future | little |  |  | the future |  | with me; badly *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **see** | present | I | a apple or pear or fruit of any kind |  | here |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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