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title: Then the envious mother cried out, ‘Will you fare better than we do?… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the envious mother cried out, ‘Will you fare better than we do? you shall not have the chance to do so again!’ and she fetched a knife, and killed the goat. Who acts: envious mother, you, we, mother. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Littl
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 77

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Then the envious mother cried out, ‘Will you fare better than we do? you shall not have the chance to do so again!’ and she fetched a knife, and killed the goat.

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**Who acts:** envious mother, you, we, mother · **What happens:** cry out, fare, do, not have, fetch, kill · **To what, where:** chance, knife, goat

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (envious mother, you, we, mother), 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:pg7277:40:77
# text = Then the envious mother cried out, ‘Will you fare better than we do? you shall not have the chance to do so again!’ and she fetched a knife, and killed the goat.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fare	fare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the envious mother |  |  |  | then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fare** | future | you |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **have** | shall | you | the chance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the chance *not said here* |  |  | again |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fetch** | past | mother | a knife |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |
| 7 | **kill** | past | the envious mother *not said here* | the goat |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=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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