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title: Now let no one say that a poor tailor can’t get on in the world, and… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now let no one say that a poor tailor can’t get on in the world, and, indeed, even attain to very high honour. Who acts: you, one, poor tailor. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 1

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Now let no one say that a poor tailor can’t get on in the world, and, indeed, even attain to very high honour.

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**Who acts:** you, one, poor tailor · **What happens:** let, say, not get on, attain · **To what, where:** one, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one, poor tailor), 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:pg7277:45:1
# text = Now let no one say that a poor tailor can’t get on in the world, and, indeed, even attain to very high honour.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	attain	attain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | no one |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **get on** | can | a poor tailor |  |  | the world |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **attain** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to high honour; indeed *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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