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title: It would have been better to save enough to feed yourself, and not c… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It would have been better to save enough to feed yourself, and not come begging to those who want all they have for themselves. Who acts: It, women. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 114

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It would have been better to save enough to feed yourself, and not come begging to those who want all they have for themselves.

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**Who acts:** It, women · **What happens:** be, save, feed, not come, beg, want · **To what, where:** enough, yourself, all

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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 (It, women), 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:pg7277:12:114
# text = It would have been better to save enough to feed yourself, and not come begging to those who want all they have for themselves.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
16	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	obl	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	obj	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would · perfect | It |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **save** | to-infinitive |  | enough |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Theme |
| 3 | **feed** | to-infinitive |  | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to those | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **want** | present |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot all=Theme |
| 7 | **have** | present | women *= woman* |  |  |  |  | for women *= woman* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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