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title: Not content with that, you changed it for bagpipes, on which you cou… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Not content with that, you changed it for bagpipes, on which you could not play, and which were not worth one-tenth of the money. Who acts: you. 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 55

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Not content with that, you changed it for bagpipes, on which you could not play, and which were not worth one-tenth of the money.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not content, change, not play, not be · **To what, where:** name

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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), 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:pg7439:11:55
# text = Not content with that, you changed it for bagpipes, on which you could not play, and which were not worth one-tenth of the money.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	content	content	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bagpipes	bagpipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	tenth	tenth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **content** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with that | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **change** | past | you | name |  |  |  | for bagpipes | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for bagpipe=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **not** **play** | could | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |

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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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