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title: How forgetful I am, and how careless you are not to tell the differe… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: How forgetful I am, and how careless you are not to tell the difference between a live un and a dead un.” Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 107

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How forgetful I am, and how careless you are not to tell the difference between a live un and a dead un.”

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** be, not be

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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:pg7439:16:107
# text = How forgetful I am, and how careless you are not to tell the difference between a live un and a dead un.”
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	forgetful	forgetful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	careless	careless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	between	between	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | forgetful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | between a live un and a dead un; tell *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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