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title: ‘Do not try to count them, it would take too long; choose some of th… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Do not try to count them, it would take too long; choose some of the bars from the heap, as I should like to make you a present of them.’ Who acts: you, it, I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 42

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‘Do not try to count them, it would take too long; choose some of the bars from the heap, as I should like to make you a present of them.’

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**Who acts:** you, it, I · **What happens:** not try, count, take, choose, like, make · **To what, where:** Hans, some, heap, present, you

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, it, 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:pg641:25:42
# text = ‘Do not try to count them, it would take too long; choose some of the bars from the heap, as I should like to make you a present of them.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	choose	choose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **try** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **count** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | Hans *= han* |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | would | it |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **choose** | infinitive |  | some |  | the heap |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent some=Theme from heap=Source |
| 5 | **like** | should | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a present of Hans | you |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary present=Product |

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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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