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title: If ever you should return to the pool where you first heard the voic… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If ever you should return to the pool where you first heard the voice, promise me that you will at least take this with you.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 111

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If ever you should return to the pool where you first heard the voice, promise me that you will at least take this with you.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** return, hear, promise, take · **To what, where:** voice, me, this, least

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. 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:pg3282:10:111
# text = If ever you should return to the pool where you first heard the voice, promise me that you will at least take this with you.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	advmod	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	promise	promise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	obl	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | you |  |  |  | ever | to the pool *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to pool=Result |
| 2 | **hear** | past | you | the voice |  |  |  | first *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | future | you | this |  | least |  | with you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent this=Theme at least=Asset |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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