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title: ‘Yes, thus it must be; go and bid farewell to my father and mother,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Yes, thus it must be; go and bid farewell to my father and mother, but if they offer you a present, see that you take nothing but my father’s ring and my mother’s casket.’ Who acts: heart, father, you. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, with its depe
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 4

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‘Yes, thus it must be; go and bid farewell to my father and mother, but if they offer you a present, see that you take nothing but my father’s ring and my mother’s casket.’

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**Who acts:** heart, father, you · **What happens:** be, bid, offer, see, take · **To what, where:** farewell, present, you, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, father, you), 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:pg3454:22:4
# text = ‘Yes, thus it must be; go and bid farewell to my father and mother, but if they offer you a present, see that you take nothing but my father’s ring and my mother’s casket.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	30	obj	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’s	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	casket	casket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | must | heart |  |  |  |  | go, thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bid** | infinitive | heart *not said here* | farewell |  |  |  | to my father and mother | tree rules |
| 3 | **offer** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | father | a present | you |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal present=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive | heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **take** | present | you | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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 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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