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title: ‘Get along with you--you are no better than silly donkeys without an… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Get along with you--you are no better than silly donkeys without any sense; if you had only drowned me in deeper water I would have returned with three times as many sheep.’ Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 1

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‘Get along with you--you are no better than silly donkeys without any sense; if you had only drowned me in deeper water I would have returned with three times as many sheep.’

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** get along, not be, drown, return · **To what, where:** you, deeper water, many sheep

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg7277:27:1
# text = ‘Get along with you--you are no better than silly donkeys without any sense; if you had only drowned me in deeper water I would have returned with three times as many sheep.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	along	along	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	no	no	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	without	without	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux	_	_
30	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	as	as	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get along** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with you; without any sense; along *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | than silly donkeys; good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **drown** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | you |  | deeper water |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient i=Result |
| 4 | **return** | would · perfect | I | many sheep |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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