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title: ‘However, I will promise you this, that the first trade you hear nam… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘However, I will promise you this, that the first trade you hear named after you come out from church shall be my trade for the rest of my life.’ Who acts: I, you, first trade. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 73

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‘However, I will promise you this, that the first trade you hear named after you come out from church shall be my trade for the rest of my life.’

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**Who acts:** I, you, first trade · **What happens:** promise, hear, name, come out, be · **To what, where:** you, first trade, church, trade

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (I, you, first trade), 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:pg3454:1:73
# text = ‘However, I will promise you this, that the first trade you hear named after you come out from church shall be my trade for the rest of my life.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	However	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
17	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
20	out	out	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | future | I |  | you |  |  | however *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | present | you | the first trade *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer trade=Stimulus |
| 3 | **name** | participle |  | the first trade *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come out** | present | you |  |  | church |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | shall | the first trade | my trade |  |  |  | for the rest of my life | tree rules |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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