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title: ‘I don’t know about that,’ answered she; ‘but at any rate you don’t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I don’t know about that,’ answered she; ‘but at any rate you don’t seem to have come to bring me anything. Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 104

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‘I don’t know about that,’ answered she; ‘but at any rate you don’t seem to have come to bring me anything.

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** not know, answer, not seem, come, bring · **To what, where:** Princess, rate, anything, me

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. 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:pg7277:12:104
# text = ‘I don’t know about that,’ answered she; ‘but at any rate you don’t seem to have come to bring me anything.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	xcomp	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | about that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about that=Stimulus |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | I *not said here* |  | Princess |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **seem** | present · do-support | you |  |  | any rate |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **come** | to-infinitive · perfect | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bring** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | anything | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination anything=Theme |

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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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