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title: ‘How should I not love you?’ answered Sunlight; ‘how should I not be… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘How should I not love you?’ answered Sunlight; ‘how should I not be proud to serve a warrior such as you? Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 36

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‘How should I not love you?’ answered Sunlight; ‘how should I not be proud to serve a warrior such as you?

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not love, answer, not be, serve · **To what, where:** you, Sunlight, warrior · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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), 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:pg641:39:36
# text = ‘How should I not love you?’ answered Sunlight; ‘how should I not be proud to serve a warrior such as you?
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Sunlight	Sunlight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	26	case	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **love** | should | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Sunlight |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | should | I |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **serve** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a warrior |  |  |  | such you | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=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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