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title: ‘Now you have had plenty of time to recover your wits, and you have… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Now you have had plenty of time to recover your wits, and you have nothing more to fear, so tell me who you are, and what this horrible Giant, with his lion and his serpent, have to do with you and for pity’s sake be quick about it.’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 46

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‘Now you have had plenty of time to recover your wits, and you have nothing more to fear, so tell me who you are, and what this horrible Giant, with his lion and his serpent, have to do with you and for pity’s sake be quick about it.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** have, recover, fear, tell, be, do · **To what, where:** plenty, wits, nothing, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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), 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:pg7277:37:46
# text = ‘Now you have had plenty of time to recover your wits, and you have nothing more to fear, so tell me who you are, and what this horrible Giant, with his lion and his serpent, have to do with you and for pity’s sake be quick about it.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
6	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wits	wit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	obj	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	ccomp	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	33	nsubj	_	_
31	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	_
32	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	’s	's	PART	POS	_	49	case	_	_
51	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
52	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	cop	_	_
53	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	_
54	about	about	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · perfect | you | plenty of time |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
| 2 | **recover** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your wits |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | you | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 4 | **fear** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for pity's sake; about serpent; quick *property* | 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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