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title: And if you love me, Bellah, you won’t attempt to hinder a plan which… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And if you love me, Bellah, you won’t attempt to hinder a plan which will hasten our marriage.’ Who acts: you, plan, our. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 89

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And if you love me, Bellah, you won’t attempt to hinder a plan which will hasten our marriage.’

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**Who acts:** you, plan, our · **What happens:** love, not attempt, not hinder, hasten, marry · **To what, where:** me, plan, marriage

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, plan, our), 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:pg3454:33:89
# text = And if you love me, Bellah, you won’t attempt to hinder a plan which will hasten our marriage.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Bellah	Bellah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hinder	hinder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | me |  |  |  | Bellah *vocative* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **attempt** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **hinder** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a plan |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer plan=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hasten** | future | a plan | our marriage |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent marriage=Patient |
| 5 | **marry** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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