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title: ‘Indeed!’ said the Vizier; ‘so that when I go home my wife may scrat… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Indeed!’ said the Vizier; ‘so that when I go home my wife may scratch my eyes out! Who acts: Vizier, I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 146

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‘Indeed!’ said the Vizier; ‘so that when I go home my wife may scratch my eyes out!

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**Who acts:** Vizier, I · **What happens:** say, go, scratch out · **To what, where:** wife, eyes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vizier, I), 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:pg7277:7:146
# text = ‘Indeed!’ said the Vizier; ‘so that when I go home my wife may scratch my eyes out!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	14	mark	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
15	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	scratch	scratch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	out	out	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Vizier |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | present | I | my wife |  |  |  | home *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wife=Theme |
| 3 | **scratch out** | may | the Vizier *not said here* | my eyes |  |  |  | out *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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