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title: “If you will first give me those little red shoes you are making.” — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “If you will first give me those little red shoes you are making.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 36

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“If you will first give me those little red shoes you are making.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** give, make · **To what, where:** little red shoes, shoemaker

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. 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:pg7439:8:36
# text = “If you will first give me those little red shoes you are making.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	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 | that little red shoes | the shoemaker *= shoemaker* |  |  | first *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient shoe=Theme |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | that little red shoes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Product |

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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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