--- title: “If you succeed,” he added, “you shall be my steward, but if you fai… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “If you succeed,” he added, “you shall be my steward, but if you fail, I will put you to death on the spot.” Who acts: you, king. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/21/25/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/21/) / 25 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 25 “If you succeed,” he added, “you shall be my steward, but if you fail, I will put you to death on the spot.” **Who acts:** you, king · **What happens:** succeed, add, be, fail, put · **To what, where:** steward, you, spot · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:21:25 # text = “If you succeed,” he added, “you shall be my steward, but if you fail, I will put you to death on the spot.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 succeed succeed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 12 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 steward steward NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 fail fail VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ” " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **succeed** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | king | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | shall | you | my steward | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fail** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **put** *in a quote* | future | king | you | | the spot | | to death | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme on spot=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/21/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/21/26/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/21/)