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title: I wonder if you’ve got what I want,’ said the old woman as she thrus… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I wonder if you’ve got what I want,’ said the old woman as she thrust a pair of hideous brown hands into the herb basket, and began turning over all the neatly packed herbs with her skinny fingers, often holding them up to her nose and sniffing at them. Who acts: I, you, old woman, woman. A sentence
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 25

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I wonder if you’ve got what I want,’ said the old woman as she thrust a pair of hideous brown hands into the herb basket, and began turning over all the neatly packed herbs with her skinny fingers, often holding them up to her nose and sniffing at them.

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**Who acts:** I, you, old woman, woman · **What happens:** wonder, get, want, say, thrust, begin · **To what, where:** pair, herb basket, packed herbs, herbs · **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 (I, you, old woman, woman), 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:pg641:26:25
# text = I wonder if you’ve got what I want,’ said the old woman as she thrust a pair of hideous brown hands into the herb basket, and began turning over all the neatly packed herbs with her skinny fingers, often holding them up to her nose and sniffing at them.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wonder	wonder	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’ve	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	thrust	thrust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
32	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	xcomp	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	38	det:predet	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	packed	packed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	skinny	skinny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	often	often	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
46	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	up	up	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	sniffing	sniff	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	conj	_	_
53	at	at	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **want** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **thrust** | past | woman | a pair of hideous brown hands |  | the herb basket |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme |
| 6 | **begin** | past | the old woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **turn** | gerund | the old woman *not said here* |  |  | all packed herbs |  | with woman's skinny fingers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over herb=Trajectory |
| 8 | **hold up** | gerund | the old woman *not said here* | herbs *= herb* |  |  |  | to woman's nose; often *property* | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
| 9 | **sniff** | gerund | the old woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at herbs *= herb* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |

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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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