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title: _"Well, well, if ye'll all promise to be good, I'll tell it ye again." — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _"Well, well, if ye'll all promise to be good, I'll tell it ye again." Who acts: ye. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 24

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\_"Well, well, if ye'll all promise to be good, I'll tell it ye again."

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** promise, be, tell · **To what, where:** story, ye · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye), 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:pg14241:21:24
# text = _"Well, well, if ye'll all promise to be good, I'll tell it ye again."
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	iobj	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | future | ye |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | ye | story | ye |  | again |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient it=Topic |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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