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title: “O new fruit of life! you must just do what I tell you, and you must… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “O new fruit of life! you must just do what I tell you, and you must use your eyes and your brains, for if you don’t you will find yourself at the place of the negroes, who are a bloodthirsty set; and God forbid they should lay hands on your precious person.” Who acts: new fruit, stuff, you, negroes
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 101

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“O new fruit of life! you must just do what I tell you, and you must use your eyes and your brains, for if you don’t you will find yourself at the place of the negroes, who are a bloodthirsty set; and God forbid they should lay hands on your precious person.”

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**Who acts:** new fruit, stuff, you, negroes, God, fruits · **What happens:** do, tell, use, not find, be, forbid · **To what, where:** you, eyes, yourself, place, bloodthirsty set, hands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new fruit, stuff, you, negroes), 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:pg3282:3:101
# text = “O new fruit of life! you must just do what I tell you, and you must use your eyes and your brains, for if you don’t you will find yourself at the place of the negroes, who are a bloodthirsty set; and God forbid they should lay hands on your precious person.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
30	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
35	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	34	obj	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	negroes	negro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
44	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	bloodthirsty	bloodthirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	forbid	forbid	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
52	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	ccomp	_	_
55	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obj	_	_
56	on	on	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
58	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | must | new fruit of life |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | stuff of my life *= stuff* |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **use** *in a quote* | must | you | your eyes and your brains |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **find** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | you | yourself |  | the place of the negroes and a bloodthirsty set |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme at place=Asset |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the negroes and a bloodthirsty set | a bloodthirsty set |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **forbid** *in a quote* | present | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **lay** *in a quote* | should | fruits *= fruit* | hands |  |  |  | on your precious person | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on person=Destination |

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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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