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title: ‘Now, do be a little sharper than you were before, and you will mana… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Now, do be a little sharper than you were before, and you will manage to carry off both the Golden Blackbird and the Porcelain Maiden. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 65

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‘Now, do be a little sharper than you were before, and you will manage to carry off both the Golden Blackbird and the Porcelain Maiden.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, manage, carry off · **To what, where:** Golden Blackbird

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg7277:21:65
# text = ‘Now, do be a little sharper than you were before, and you will manage to carry off both the Golden Blackbird and the Porcelain Maiden.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
8	sharper	sharp	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	before	before	ADV	RB	_	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc:preconj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Blackbird	Blackbird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Porcelain	Porcelain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | a little *obl*; sharp *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | you |  |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **manage** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **carry off** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the Golden Blackbird and the Porcelain Maiden |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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