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title: “Ah, you see too much,” said he; “now, pray, with which eye do you s… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ah, you see too much,” said he; “now, pray, with which eye do you see all this?” Who acts: you, fellow. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 31

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“Ah, you see too much,” said he; “now, pray, with which eye do you see all this?”

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**Who acts:** you, fellow · **What happens:** see, say, pray · **To what, where:** much, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fellow), 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:pg7439:46:31
# text = “Ah, you see too much,” said he; “now, pray, with which eye do you see all this?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	20	det	_	_
20	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present | you | much |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | fellow |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pray** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | this |  |  |  | with which eye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |

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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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