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title: You must go on along this road till it forks into three; take neithe… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You must go on along this road till it forks into three; take neither the right hand nor the left, but the middle path. Who acts: You, road. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 108

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You must go on along this road till it forks into three; take neither the right hand nor the left, but the middle path.

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**Who acts:** You, road · **What happens:** go on, fork, take · **To what, where:** road, three, right hand

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown 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 (You, road), 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:pg3282:2:108
# text = You must go on along this road till it forks into three; take neither the right hand nor the left, but the middle path.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	along	along	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	forks	fork	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc:preconj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | must | You |  |  | this road |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along road=Location |
| 2 | **fork** | present | road |  |  | three |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive |  | the right hand nor the left |  |  |  | the middle path *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |

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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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