--- title: If you would not fail, wash yourself in clean water, and take balsam… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: If you would not fail, wash yourself in clean water, and take balsam from a vessel on top of the door, and rub it over your body, and to-morrow you will be as strong as many men, and I will lead you to the dwelling of the middle one.' Who acts: you, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg3027:4:125 # text = If you would not fail, wash yourself in clean water, and take balsam from a vessel on top of the door, and rub it over your body, and to-morrow you will be as strong as many men, and I will lead you to the dwelling of the middle one.' 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 fail fail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 wash wash VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 balsam balsam NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 vessel vessel NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 rub rub VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 over over ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 29 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 37 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 cop _ _ 39 as as ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 41 as as ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 46 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 lead lead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 49 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 to to ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 dwelling dwelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 55 middle middle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **fail** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | you | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **wash** | imperative | you *not said here* | yourself | | clean water | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient | | 3 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | balsam | | a vessel | | on top of the door | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent balsam=Theme on top=Destination | | 4 | **rub over** | infinitive | you *not said here* | balsam | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | future | you | | | | | to morrow; as many men; strong *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **lead** | future | I | you | | the dwelling of the middle one | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to dwelling=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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 124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/4/124/) - next →: [sentence 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/4/126/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/4/)