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title: “Why, to be sure, I would put up with almost anything now, to be Lor… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Why, to be sure, I would put up with almost anything now, to be Lord Mayor of London, and ride in a fine coach, when I grow to be a man! Who acts: Lord Mayor. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 50

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“Why, to be sure, I would put up with almost anything now, to be Lord Mayor of London, and ride in a fine coach, when I grow to be a man!

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**Who acts:** Lord Mayor · **What happens:** be, put up, ride, grow · **To what, where:** Lord Mayor, fine coach, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord Mayor), 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:pg7439:37:50
# text = “Why, to be sure, I would put up with almost anything now, to be Lord Mayor of London, and ride in a fine coach, when I grow to be a man!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obl	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **put up** *in a quote* | would | Lord Mayor of London *= mayor* |  |  |  | now | with anything | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | Lord Mayor |  |  |  | of London | tree rules |
| 4 | **ride** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | a fine coach |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **grow** *in a quote* | present | Lord Mayor of London *= mayor* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Lord Mayor of London *= mayor* *not said here* | a man |  |  |  |  | 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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