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title: I do very well as I am, and yet from one year’s end to another they… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I do very well as I am, and yet from one year’s end to another they talk of nothing but delivering me from some imaginary affliction. Who acts: I, people. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 31

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I do very well as I am, and yet from one year’s end to another they talk of nothing but delivering me from some imaginary affliction.

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**Who acts:** I, people · **What happens:** do, talk, deliver · **To what, where:** end, me, imaginary affliction

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, people), 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:pg7277:16:31
# text = I do very well as I am, and yet from one year’s end to another they talk of nothing but delivering me from some imaginary affliction.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
10	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	nmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	obl	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	delivering	deliver	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
27	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	affliction	affliction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | I |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **talk** | present | people |  |  |  | from one year's end to another | of nothing | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **deliver** | gerund | people *not said here* | me |  | some imaginary affliction |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from affliction=Initial\_Location |

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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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