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title: Besides, I have none here, and if you must have one you had better a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Besides, I have none here, and if you must have one you had better ask Urban the barber, who lives over the way, to lend you his. Who acts: I, you, barber. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 44

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Besides, I have none here, and if you must have one you had better ask Urban the barber, who lives over the way, to lend you his.

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**Who acts:** I, you, barber · **What happens:** have, ask, live, lend · **To what, where:** none, one, barber, Urban, way, you

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. 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, barber), 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:pg641:27:44
# text = Besides, I have none here, and if you must have one you had better ask Urban the barber, who lives over the way, to lend you his.
1	Besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	_
17	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
18	Urban	Urban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	barber	barber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | none |  | here |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | must | you | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | you |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  | the barber | Urban |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **live** | present | the barber |  |  | the way |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over way=Location |
| 6 | **lend** | to-infinitive |  | barber | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient his=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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