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title: ‘Then you sha’n’t have any, but a head stuck close between your shou… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Then you sha’n’t have any, but a head stuck close between your shoulders so that it may be quite sure not to fall off.’ Who acts: you, head, it. 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 38

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‘Then you sha’n’t have any, but a head stuck close between your shoulders so that it may be quite sure not to fall off.’

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**Who acts:** you, head, it · **What happens:** not have, stick, be, not fall off · **To what, where:** any, shoulders

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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, head, it), 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:pg641:26:38
# text = ‘Then you sha’n’t have any, but a head stuck close between your shoulders so that it may be quite sure not to fall off.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	sha’	sha'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
13	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
14	between	between	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	23	mark	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | infinitive | you | any |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient |
| 2 | **stick** | participle | a head |  |  | your shoulders |  | close *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme between shoulder=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | may | it |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **fall off** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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