--- title: Then the Magician said, "If it is an old favourite, I can understand… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Magician said, "If it is an old favourite, I can understand your not caring to give it away; but come what will you sell it for?" Who acts: Magician, parrot, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Magician, parrot, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:10:63 # text = Then the Magician said, "If it is an old favourite, I can understand your not caring to give it away; but come what will you sell it for?" 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 If if SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 favourite favourite NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 caring care VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 ccomp _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 away away ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 27 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 30 obj _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ? ? PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Magician | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | parrot | a old favourite | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **understand** *in a quote* | can | the Magician *= magician* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **care** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **give away** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | parrot | | | | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **sell** *in a quote* | future | you | parrot | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient it=Theme | 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. **Text:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/64/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/)