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title: You are going to marry me, so you may as well make up your mind to i… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You are going to marry me, so you may as well make up your mind to it; and I am going away this very minute to make all the arrangements. Who acts: You, I, your. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 108

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You are going to marry me, so you may as well make up your mind to it; and I am going away this very minute to make all the arrangements.

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**Who acts:** You, I, your · **What happens:** go, marry, make up, go away, make, mind · **To what, where:** me, mind, matter, arrangements

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. 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, your), 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:pg7277:11:108
# text = You are going to marry me, so you may as well make up your mind to it; and I am going away this very minute to make all the arrangements.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	13	cc	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	fixed	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	arrangements	arrangement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · progressive | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **marry** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 3 | **make up** | may | you | your mind | matter |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 4 | **go away** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  | minute | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | all arrangements |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset arrangement=Product |
| 6 | **mind** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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