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title: There will I go to seek him, and woe betide me if I return without a… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There will I go to seek him, and woe betide me if I return without a warrior that can guard the fountain, as well as he who kept it before.’ Who acts: I, woe, warrior. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 8

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There will I go to seek him, and woe betide me if I return without a warrior that can guard the fountain, as well as he who kept it before.’

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**Who acts:** I, woe, warrior · **What happens:** go, seek, betide, return, guard, keep · **To what, where:** Luned, me, fountain

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (I, woe, warrior), 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:pg3454:31:8
# text = There will I go to seek him, and woe betide me if I return without a warrior that can guard the fountain, as well as he who kept it before.’
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	betide	betide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
16	without	without	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	30	advmod	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	fixed	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	before	before	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | future | I |  |  | there |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **seek** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Luned |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **betide** | present | woe | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **return** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  |  | without a warrior | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **guard** | can | a warrior | the fountain |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fountain=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **keep** | past | woe | fountain |  |  |  | before *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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