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title: Then it may be that I shall succeed, and if I return with my purpose… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then it may be that I shall succeed, and if I return with my purpose fulfilled I will marry you according to the law, and take you to my own country, and we will spend the rest of our lives together in pleasure and good companionship. Who acts: journey, I, we, my. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 91

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Then it may be that I shall succeed, and if I return with my purpose fulfilled I will marry you according to the law, and take you to my own country, and we will spend the rest of our lives together in pleasure and good companionship.

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**Who acts:** journey, I, we, my · **What happens:** be, return, fulfil, marry, accord, take · **To what, where:** you, own country, rest, pleasure

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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 (journey, I, we, 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:pg3282:3:91
# text = Then it may be that I shall succeed, and if I return with my purpose fulfilled I will marry you according to the law, and take you to my own country, and we will spend the rest of our lives together in pleasure and good companionship.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	case	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
44	together	together	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	companionship	companionship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | shall | journey |  |  |  | then | succeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  |  | with my purpose | tree rules |
| 3 | **fulfil** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **marry** | future | I | you |  |  |  | accord the law | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 5 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **take** | infinitive | journey *not said here* | you |  | my own country |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to country=Destination |
| 7 | **spend** | future | we | the rest of our lives |  | pleasure and good companionship |  | together *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset |
| 8 | **purpose** |  | 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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