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title: After such a night you cannot want any breakfast; so while I do my h… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 149

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After such a night you cannot want any breakfast; so while I do my household tasks you had better stay in bed, since the more one sleeps the less one need eat; and as it is market-day I will go to town and buy a pennyworth of bread for the week’s eating.’

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**Who acts:** you, I, more one, less one need, need, my · **What happens:** not want, do, have, sleep, eat, be · **To what, where:** breakfast, household tasks, better stay, bed, less one need, town

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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 (you, I, more one, less one need), 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:pg7277:12:149
# text = After such a night you cannot want any breakfast; so while I do my household tasks you had better stay in bed, since the more one sleeps the less one need eat; and as it is market-day I will go to town and buy a pennyworth of bread for the week’s eating.’
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	4	det:predet	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	tasks	task	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
21	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	stay	stay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	_
33	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
35	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
41	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
44	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	conj	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	pennyworth	pennyworth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
55	for	for	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	’s	's	PART	POS	_	57	case	_	_
59	eating	eating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **want** | can | you | any breakfast |  |  | night |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot breakfast=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | I | my household tasks |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | past | you | better stay |  | bed |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stay=Patient |
| 4 | **sleep** | present | the more one | the less one need |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** | present | the less one need *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | need |  |  |  | as market day |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** | future | I |  |  | town |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **buy** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a pennyworth of bread |  |  |  | for the week's eating | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pennyworth=Theme for eating=Beneficiary |
| 9 | **task** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **eat** |  | the week |  |  |  |  |  | nom eating «act intransitive»: 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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