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title: ‘For one thing, they’re not mine; for another, a great deal depends… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘For one thing, they’re not mine; for another, a great deal depends on my having them all here in the evening.’ Who acts: visitors, great deal, my. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 110

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‘For one thing, they’re not mine; for another, a great deal depends on my having them all here in the evening.’

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**Who acts:** visitors, great deal, my · **What happens:** not be, depend, have · **To what, where:** mine, visitors

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (visitors, great deal, my), 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:pg641:24:110
# text = ‘For one thing, they’re not mine; for another, a great deal depends on my having them all here in the evening.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’re	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
9	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nmod:unmarked	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **does** | present | visitors *= visitor* | mine |  |  |  | for one thing | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **depend** | present | a great deal |  |  |  |  | for another | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | my | visitors *= visitor* |  | here | evening |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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