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title: Do you fancy I shall be so stupid as to put the means into your hand… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Do you fancy I shall be so stupid as to put the means into your hands of escaping? Who acts: you, I, the, hands. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 19

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Do you fancy I shall be so stupid as to put the means into your hands of escaping?

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**Who acts:** you, I, the, hands · **What happens:** fancy, be, put, mean, escape · **To what, where:** hands

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, the, hands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:23:19
# text = Do you fancy I shall be so stupid as to put the means into your hands of escaping?
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	nsubj	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	escaping	escape	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | stupid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | present | the |  |  | your hands |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **escape** | gerund | your hands *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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