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title: I think you want to be the grand duke’s dwarf, don’t you?’ — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I think you want to be the grand duke’s dwarf, don’t you?’ Who acts: I, you. 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 every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 83

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I think you want to be the grand duke’s dwarf, don’t you?’

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** think, want, be, not do · **To what, where:** dwarf, you · **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 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), 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:pg641:27:83
# text = I think you want to be the grand duke’s dwarf, don’t you?’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	duke	duke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **want** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the grand duke's dwarf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **do** | infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |

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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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