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title: “What will you give?” said the man; “as you are a friend, I don't mu… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “What will you give?” said the man; “as you are a friend, I don't much mind letting you have them for those bagpipes.” Who acts: you, man. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 45

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“What will you give?” said the man; “as you are a friend, I don't much mind letting you have them for those bagpipes.”

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**Who acts:** you, man · **What happens:** give, say, be, mind, let, have · **To what, where:** you, Mr. · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man), 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:pg7439:11:45
# text = “What will you give?” said the man; “as you are a friend, I don't much mind letting you have them for those bagpipes.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	much	much	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
24	letting	let	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	bagpipes	bagpipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | as a friend | tree rules |
| 4 | **mind** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the man *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **let** *in a quote* | gerund | the man *= man* *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | Mr. |  |  |  | for that bagpipes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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