--- title: ‘I might,’ said John, ‘have left you horned to the end of your days,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I might,’ said John, ‘have left you horned to the end of your days, but I am a good fellow and I once loved you, and besides--you are too like the devil to have any need of his horns.’ Who acts: John, you, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:22:326 # text = ‘I might,’ said John, ‘have left you horned to the end of your days, but I am a good fellow and I once loved you, and besides--you are too like the devil to have any need of his horns.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 horned horn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 30 advmod _ _ 30 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 besides beside NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 -- -- PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 38 too too ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 39 like like ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 devil devil NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 acl _ _ 44 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 45 det _ _ 45 need need NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | John | besides | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **leave** | present · perfect | John *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **horn** | past | you | | | | to the end of your days | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | I | a good fellow | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **love** | past | I | you | | | | once *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 6 | **is** | present | you | | | | | like the devil | tree rules | | 7 | **have** | to-infinitive | John *not said here* | any need of John's horns | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient | | 8 | **need** | | | John's horns | | | | | nom need «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 325](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/325/) - next →: [sentence 327](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/327/) - ↑ back to [The Little Soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/)