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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 39

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Now, don't be a dog in the manger, for if \_you\_ get all you want, what can it matter to you if \_I\_ am rich or poor?"

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** do, not be, get, want, matter, be · **To what, where:** manger, dog, you

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:pg7128:22:39
# text = Now, don't be a dog in the manger, for if _you_ get all you want, what can it matter to you if _I_ am rich or poor?"
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	manger	manger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	obj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	expl	_	_
25	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	_
32	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the manger | now |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | infinitive |  | a dog |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **want** | present | you |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **matter** | can |  | manger | you |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «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.

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