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title: Surely a young and active gazelle like you ought to be ashamed of no… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Surely a young and active gazelle like you ought to be ashamed of not being able to walk a few steps. Who acts: young gazelle. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 50

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Surely a young and active gazelle like you ought to be ashamed of not being able to walk a few steps.

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**Who acts:** young gazelle · **What happens:** be, not be, walk · **To what, where:** few steps

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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 (young gazelle), 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:pg7277:37:50
# text = Surely a young and active gazelle like you ought to be ashamed of not being able to walk a few steps.
1	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
16	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | ought | a young gazelle |  |  |  |  | ashamed, surely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | gerund | a young gazelle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk** | to-infinitive | a young gazelle *not said here* | a few steps |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory |

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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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