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title: Why, child, I wonder you could walk under such a weight, and certain… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Why, child, I wonder you could walk under such a weight, and certainly in my house you would not have had room to turn round.’ 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 cl
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 132

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Why, child, I wonder you could walk under such a weight, and certainly in my house you would not have had room to turn round.’

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** wonder, walk, not have, turn round · **To what, where:** child, weight, room · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg7277:12:132
# text = Why, child, I wonder you could walk under such a weight, and certainly in my house you would not have had room to turn round.’
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wonder	wonder	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	13	det:predet	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	parataxis	_	_
25	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	round	round	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | I | child |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **walk** | could | you |  |  | such weight |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under weight=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **have** | would · perfect | you | room |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient |
| 4 | **turn round** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | room *not said here* |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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