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title: But what shall I give you as a reward to begin with?’ — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But what shall I give you as a reward to begin with?’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 79

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But what shall I give you as a reward to begin with?’

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** give, begin · **To what, where:** you

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg640:34:79
# text = But what shall I give you as a reward to begin with?’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | shall | I |  | you |  |  | as a reward | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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