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title: ‘By all means, only give me the pie,’ said the greedy Turritella. — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘By all means, only give me the pie,’ said the greedy Turritella. Who acts: all, greedy Turritella. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 50

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‘By all means, only give me the pie,’ said the greedy Turritella.

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**Who acts:** all, greedy Turritella · **What happens:** mean, give, say · **To what, where:** pie, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, greedy Turritella), 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:pg7277:5:50
# text = ‘By all means, only give me the pie,’ said the greedy Turritella.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pie	pie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | all |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive |  | the pie | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pie=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the greedy Turritella |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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