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title: “But if you like to go and gather some of the berries I will do just… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “But if you like to go and gather some of the berries I will do just as he did, and you will soon be able to see as far as me.” Who acts: you, wolverine. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 14

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“But if you like to go and gather some of the berries I will do just as he did, and you will soon be able to see as far as me.”

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**Who acts:** you, wolverine · **What happens:** like, go, gather, do, be, see · **To what, where:** some, berries

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wolverine), 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:pg3282:17:14
# text = “But if you like to go and gather some of the berries I will do just as he did, and you will soon be able to see as far as me.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **gather** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | some |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | future | the wolverine *= wolverine* | the berries *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Eventuality |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | past | wolverine |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | able, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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