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title: And was I not unhappy enough before, that you must needs come and ta… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And was I not unhappy enough before, that you must needs come and taunt me with the happiness your daughter is enjoying now she is King Charming’s bride?’ Who acts: I, you, daughter. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 48

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And was I not unhappy enough before, that you must needs come and taunt me with the happiness your daughter is enjoying now she is King Charming’s bride?’

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**Who acts:** I, you, daughter · **What happens:** not be, need, come, taunt, enjoy, be · **To what, where:** me, happiness, bride

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (I, you, daughter), 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:pg7277:3:48
# text = And was I not unhappy enough before, that you must needs come and taunt me with the happiness your daughter is enjoying now she is King Charming’s bride?’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	before	before	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	taunt	taunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:desc	_	_
28	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | before, unhappy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | must | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **come** *not said to happen* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **taunt** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | with the happiness | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 5 | **enjoy** | present · progressive | your daughter | the happiness *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer happiness=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is a** | present | daughter | Charming  King's bride |  |  | now |  | tree rules |

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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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