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title: Oh, Maurice, Maurice, if there’s any love or nature left in you, com… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, Maurice, Maurice, if there’s any love or nature left in you, come back to your own ould mother, who reared you like a decent Christian!’ Who acts: you, own ould mother. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 63

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Oh, Maurice, Maurice, if there’s any love or nature left in you, come back to your own ould mother, who reared you like a decent Christian!’

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**Who acts:** you, own ould mother · **What happens:** leave, come back, rear · **To what, where:** nature, you

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, own ould mother), 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:pg3454:18:63
# text = Oh, Maurice, Maurice, if there’s any love or nature left in you, come back to your own ould mother, who reared you like a decent Christian!’
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	ould	ould	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	reared	rear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	decent	decent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  | nature *not said here* |  |  |  | in you *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in you=Result |
| 2 | **come back** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to your own ould mother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **rear** | past | your own ould mother | you |  |  |  | like a decent Christian | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |

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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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