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title: My dreams never deceive me, so I entreat you to follow my advice dur… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: My dreams never deceive me, so I entreat you to follow my advice during the rest of the journey.” Who acts: dreams, I, My. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 24

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My dreams never deceive me, so I entreat you to follow my advice during the rest of the journey.”

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**Who acts:** dreams, I, My · **What happens:** not deceive, entreat, follow, dream · **To what, where:** me, you, advice

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dreams, I, My), 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:pg2435:2:24
# text = My dreams never deceive me, so I entreat you to follow my advice during the rest of the journey.”
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	deceive	deceive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	entreat	entreat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	during	during	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **deceive** | present | My dreams | me |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 2 | **entreat** | infinitive | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **follow** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my advice |  |  | during the rest of the journey |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
| 4 | **dream** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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