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description: Still, if you will accept six mules and their loads, and will take the rest straight to Nekabad, I shall thank you heartily.” Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 47

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Still, if you will accept six mules and their loads, and will take the rest straight to Nekabad, I shall thank you heartily.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** accept, take, thank · **To what, where:** six mules, rest, you

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg3282:34:47
# text = Still, if you will accept six mules and their loads, and will take the rest straight to Nekabad, I shall thank you heartily.”
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	mules	mule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Nekabad	Nekabad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	heartily	heartily	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | future | you | six mules and mules's loads |  |  | still |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | future |  | the rest |  |  |  | straight *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | shall | I |  | you |  |  | heartily *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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