--- title: ‘You can answer, and you can speak, and I will marry you; but do you… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘You can answer, and you can speak, and I will marry you; but do you know that every word which we are saying and have said has been taken down and will be in the paper to-morrow? Who acts: You, I, word. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:50:175 # text = ‘You can answer, and you can speak, and I will marry you; but do you know that every word which we are saying and have said has been taken down and will be in the paper to-morrow? 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 25 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 acl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 31 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 ccomp _ _ 34 down down ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 36 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 cop _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | can | You | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | can | you | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **marry** | future | I | you | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 4 | **know** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | every word | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | every word *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **take down** | present · perfect · passive | | every word | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 8 | **is** | future | | | | the paper | | to morrow | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 174](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/50/174/) - next →: [sentence 176](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/50/176/) - ↑ back to [The Steadfast Tin-soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/50/)