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title: But from the moment I saw you I took a fancy to you, so if you agree… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But from the moment I saw you I took a fancy to you, so if you agree, we might be married and might live together like princes, because I have great riches.’ Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2), with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 83

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But from the moment I saw you I took a fancy to you, so if you agree, we might be married and might live together like princes, because I have great riches.’

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** see, take, agree, marry, live together, have · **To what, where:** you, fancy, we, great riches

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). 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), 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:pg640:5:83
# text = But from the moment I saw you I took a fancy to you, so if you agree, we might be married and might live together like princes, because I have great riches.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
27	together	together	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
34	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take** | past | I | a fancy | you |  | moment |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme to you=Destination |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **marry** | might · passive |  | we |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **live together** | might |  |  |  |  |  | like princes; together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | present | I | great riches |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Patient |

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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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