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title: Really, I thought you’d have had more gumption than that; they would… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Really, I thought you’d have had more gumption than that; they wouldn’t have taken me in in that way.’ Who acts: I, rascals. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 46

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Really, I thought you’d have had more gumption than that; they wouldn’t have taken me in in that way.’

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**Who acts:** I, rascals · **What happens:** think, have, not take · **To what, where:** you, more gumption, me, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, rascals), 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:pg7277:26:46
# text = Really, I thought you’d have had more gumption than that; they wouldn’t have taken me in in that way.’
1	Really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’d	'd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	compound	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	gumption	gumption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present · perfect |  | more gumption |  |  |  | than that | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gumption=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **take** | would · perfect | rascals *= rascal* | me |  | that way |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Value in way=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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