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title: But foolish people like you always think they can do without help or… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But foolish people like you always think they can do without help or advice, and I observe that, in spite of all my goodness to you, you had not even the civility to invite me!’ Who acts: foolish people, people, I, you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1, with 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 16

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But foolish people like you always think they can do without help or advice, and I observe that, in spite of all my goodness to you, you had not even the civility to invite me!’

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**Who acts:** foolish people, people, I, you · **What happens:** think, do, observe, not civility, invite, spite · **To what, where:** that, spite, me, goodness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foolish people, people, 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:pg7277:14:16
# text = But foolish people like you always think they can do without help or advice, and I observe that, in spite of all my goodness to you, you had not even the civility to invite me!’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
11	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	observe	observe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
33	even	even	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	civility	civility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	invite	invite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl	_	_
38	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | foolish people like you |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | can | people |  |  |  |  | without help or advice | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **observe** | present | I | that |  | spite of my goodness to you |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **civility** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **invite** | to-infinitive | foolish people like you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 6 | **spite** |  |  | my goodness to you |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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