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title: I don’t allow myself to be put out by trifles like that with people… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I don’t allow myself to be put out by trifles like that with people I really am fond of. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 20

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I don’t allow myself to be put out by trifles like that with people I really am fond of.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not allow, put out, be · **To what, where:** myself, people

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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 (I), 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:pg7277:14:20
# text = I don’t allow myself to be put out by trifles like that with people I really am fond of.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	iobj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	trifles	trifle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	really	really	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **allow** | present · do-support | I |  | myself |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer myself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **put out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by trifles like that with people | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: by trifle=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | present | I | people *not said here* |  |  |  | fond *property* | tree rules |

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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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