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title: “O lovely girl,” rejoined he, “if I accomplish my purpose, so that I… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “O lovely girl,” rejoined he, “if I accomplish my purpose, so that I need no longer strive for it, I will keep my compact with you. Who acts: lovely girl, Dil aram, my. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 80

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“O lovely girl,” rejoined he, “if I accomplish my purpose, so that I need no longer strive for it, I will keep my compact with you.

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**Who acts:** lovely girl, Dil aram, my · **What happens:** rejoin, accomplish, need, strive, keep, purpose · **To what, where:** Heaven, purpose, compact

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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 (lovely girl, Dil aram, my), 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:pg3282:2:80
# text = “O lovely girl,” rejoined he, “if I accomplish my purpose, so that I need no longer strive for it, I will keep my compact with you.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	rejoined	rejoin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	20	mark	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	no	no	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	strive	strive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	compact	compact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoin** | past | lovely girl | Heaven |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **accomplish** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Dil aram *= aram* | my purpose |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Eventuality |
| 3 | **need** *in a quote* | present | Dil aram *= aram* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **strive** *not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | Dil aram *= aram* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for purpose; long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep** *in a quote* | future | Dil aram *= aram* | my compact |  |  |  | with you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compact=Theme |
| 6 | **purpose** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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