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title: I give you a month to see if either of your daughters will come back… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I give you a month to see if either of your daughters will come back with you and stay here, to let you go free. Who acts: I, either, you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 72

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I give you a month to see if either of your daughters will come back with you and stay here, to let you go free.

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**Who acts:** I, either, you · **What happens:** give, see, come back, stay, let, go · **To what, where:** you

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, 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, either, 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:pg503:14:72
# text = I give you a month to see if either of your daughters will come back with you and stay here, to let you go free.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | I |  | you |  | month |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come back** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | either |  |  |  |  | with you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stay** | infinitive | either *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **let** | to-infinitive | either *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | free *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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