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title: If I can manage to set her up with a pair, I will bet any money that… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If I can manage to set her up with a pair, I will bet any money that I shall cease to want her for my wife. Who acts: I, money. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 261

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If I can manage to set her up with a pair, I will bet any money that I shall cease to want her for my wife.

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**Who acts:** I, money · **What happens:** manage, set up, bet, cease, want · **To what, where:** heart, money

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, money), 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:pg7277:22:261
# text = If I can manage to set her up with a pair, I will bet any money that I shall cease to want her for my wife.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	bet	bet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **set up** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | heart |  |  |  | with a pair | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with pair=Instrument |
| 3 | **bet** | future | I | any money |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Recipient |
| 4 | **cease** | shall | any money |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **want** | to-infinitive | any money *not said here* | heart |  |  |  | for my wife | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=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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