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title: ‘I have provided neither musicians nor singers; but as you seem fond… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I have provided neither musicians nor singers; but as you seem fond of music I will sing to you myself.’ Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 91

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‘I have provided neither musicians nor singers; but as you seem fond of music I will sing to you myself.’

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** provide, seem, sing · **To what, where:** musicians, myself, you

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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 (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:pg7277:11:91
# text = ‘I have provided neither musicians nor singers; but as you seem fond of music I will sing to you myself.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	musicians	musician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	8	cc	_	_
8	singers	singer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
14	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | present · perfect | I | neither musicians nor singers |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition musician=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | present | you |  |  |  |  | fond *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | future | I | myself | you |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient |

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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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