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title: I desired your success with all my soul, not only for your own sake,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I desired your success with all my soul, not only for your own sake, but also for my own, because I could not get back my proper shape till you had become master of the beautiful bird, though I am quite ignorant as to your reason for seeking it.’ Who acts: I, you, reason. A sentence of «The Yellow F
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 36

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I desired your success with all my soul, not only for your own sake, but also for my own, because I could not get back my proper shape till you had become master of the beautiful bird, though I am quite ignorant as to your reason for seeking it.’

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**Who acts:** I, you, reason · **What happens:** desire, not get back, become, be, seek · **To what, where:** success, proper shape, master, shape

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. 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, reason), 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:pg640:12:36
# text = I desired your success with all my soul, not only for your own sake, but also for my own, because I could not get back my proper shape till you had become master of the beautiful bird, though I am quite ignorant as to your reason for seeking it.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
32	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
36	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	xcomp	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
44	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
47	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	50	case	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	fixed	_	_
49	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
51	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
52	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	50	acl	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **desire** | past | I | your success |  |  |  | with my soul and your own sake | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot success=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **get back** | could | I | my proper shape |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shape=Stimulus |
| 3 | **become** | past · perfect | you | master of the beautiful bird |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | as your reason; ignorant *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **seek** | gerund | your reason *not said here* | shape |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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