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title: You have eaten it all when you stood godmother; first the top off, t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You have eaten it all when you stood godmother; first the top off, then half of it gone, then----’ Who acts: You. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, sentence 57

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You have eaten it all when you stood godmother; first the top off, then half of it gone, then----’

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** eat, stand · **To what, where:** friend, godmother

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg640:3:57
# text = You have eaten it all when you stood godmother; first the top off, then half of it gone, then----’
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	godmother	godmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
17	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	20	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	----	----	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present · perfect | You | friend |  |  |  | the top *obl* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **stand** | past | you | godmother |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer godmother=Stimulus |

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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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