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title: You may imagine that I was by this time half dead with fatigue, but… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You may imagine that I was by this time half dead with fatigue, but Mirlifiche insisted upon my feeding her unicorn before I did anything else. Who acts: You, I, Mirlifiche, my. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, with its dependency t
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 2

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You may imagine that I was by this time half dead with fatigue, but Mirlifiche insisted upon my feeding her unicorn before I did anything else.

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**Who acts:** You, I, Mirlifiche, my · **What happens:** imagine, be, insist, feed, do · **To what, where:** unicorn, anything

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. 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, Mirlifiche, my), 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:pg7277:38:2
# text = You may imagine that I was by this time half dead with fatigue, but Mirlifiche insisted upon my feeding her unicorn before I did anything else.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	11	obl	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	Mirlifiche	Mirlifiche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	insisted	insist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	obj	_	_
27	else	else	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | may | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | by this time half; with fatigue; dead *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **insist** *speech: other* | past | Mirlifiche |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **feed** | gerund | my |  | Mirlifiche's unicorn |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unicorn=Recipient |
| 5 | **do** | past | I | anything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |

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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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