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title: ‘Since you are so thoughtful for me, and so patient about your own a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Since you are so thoughtful for me, and so patient about your own affairs,’ said the little monkey, ‘I will show you the way to the Golden Rock, only you must leave Mousta to wait for you here.’ Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2, with its de
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 37

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‘Since you are so thoughtful for me, and so patient about your own affairs,’ said the little monkey, ‘I will show you the way to the Golden Rock, only you must leave Mousta to wait for you here.’

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** be, say, show, leave, wait · **To what, where:** little monkey, way, you, Mousta · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. 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), 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:pg7277:15:37
# text = ‘Since you are so thoughtful for me, and so patient about your own affairs,’ said the little monkey, ‘I will show you the way to the Golden Rock, only you must leave Mousta to wait for you here.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	ccomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	patient	patient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Rock	Rock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	only	only	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
40	Mousta	Mousta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	advcl	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
45	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | for me; thoughtful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about your own affairs | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the little monkey |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent monkey=Topic |
| 4 | **show** | future | I | the way | you |  |  | to the Golden Rock | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic |
| 5 | **leave** | must | you | Mousta |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mousta=Theme |
| 6 | **wait** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | here |  | for you | vn exist-47.1 «NP 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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