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title: For me you shall bring nothing but an old tinder-box which my grandm… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For me you shall bring nothing but an old tinder-box which my grandmother forgot last time she was down there.’ Who acts: me, grandmother. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 33

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For me you shall bring nothing but an old tinder-box which my grandmother forgot last time she was down there.’

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**Who acts:** me, grandmother · **What happens:** bring, forget, be · **To what, where:** nothing, last time

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, grandmother), 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:pg640:46:33
# text = For me you shall bring nothing but an old tinder-box which my grandmother forgot last time she was down there.’
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	tinder	tinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | shall | me | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | past | my grandmother |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | grandmother | last time *not said here* |  |  |  | down, there *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 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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