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title: Have patience for a little, and then without fail you shall have you… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Have patience for a little, and then without fail you shall have your puppets to play with.” Who acts: you, puppets. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 77

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Have patience for a little, and then without fail you shall have your puppets to play with.”

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**Who acts:** you, puppets · **What happens:** have, play · **To what, where:** patience, puppets

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, puppets), 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:pg3282:31:77
# text = Have patience for a little, and then without fail you shall have your puppets to play with.”
1	Have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	puppets	puppet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | imperative | you *not said here* | patience |  |  |  | for a little | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | shall | you | your puppets |  |  | then | without fail | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | to-infinitive | your puppets *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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