--- title: ‘More than you would find it easy to pay, Madam,’ answered she; ‘but… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘More than you would find it easy to pay, Madam,’ answered she; ‘but if you will manage for me to sleep one night in the Chamber of Echoes, I will give you the emeralds.’ Who acts: you, price, me, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, price, me, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:5:10 # text = ‘More than you would find it easy to pay, Madam,’ answered she; ‘but if you will manage for me to sleep one night in the Chamber of Echoes, I will give you the emeralds.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 More more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 6 advmod _ _ 3 than than ADP IN _ 2 fixed _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Madam Madam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 15 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 18 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 manage manage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 24 for for SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Chamber Chamber PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Echoes Echo PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 iobj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 emeralds emerald NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | would | you | price | | | | Madam *obl*; easy *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 2 | **pay** | to-infinitive | price *not said here* | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | | | Madam | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **manage** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | me | | | the Chamber of Echoes | night | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in chamber=Location | | 6 | **give** | future | I | the emeralds | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient emerald=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/5/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/5/11/) - ↑ back to [The Blue Bird, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/5/)