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title: ‘Just see that frightful dwarf--would you believe that he wants me t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Just see that frightful dwarf--would you believe that he wants me to think he is my son Jem?’ Who acts: you, odd, me. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 121

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‘Just see that frightful dwarf--would you believe that he wants me to think he is my son Jem?’

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**Who acts:** you, odd, me · **What happens:** see, believe, want, think, be · **To what, where:** frightful dwarf, me, son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, odd, me), 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:pg641:26:121
# text = ‘Just see that frightful dwarf--would you believe that he wants me to think he is my son Jem?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	_
21	Jem	Jem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | that frightful dwarf |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dwarf=Stimulus |
| 2 | **believe** | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **want** | present | odd | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | odd | my son |  |  |  |  | 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 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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