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title: But as I happen to be feeling in a cheerful mood to-night I will let… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But as I happen to be feeling in a cheerful mood to-night I will let you have your life. Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 35

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But as I happen to be feeling in a cheerful mood to-night I will let you have your life.

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** happen, feel, let, have · **To what, where:** you, life

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. 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:pg641:33:35
# text = But as I happen to be feeling in a cheerful mood to-night I will let you have your life.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | to-infinitive · progressive | I *not said here* |  |  |  | night | in a cheerful mood | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in mood=Attribute |
| 3 | **let** | future | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your life |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |

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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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