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title: But remember your promise and come back when the two months are over… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But remember your promise and come back when the two months are over, or you may have cause to repent it, for if you do not come in good time you will find your faithful Beast dead. Who acts: you, two months, your. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, wit
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 18

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But remember your promise and come back when the two months are over, or you may have cause to repent it, for if you do not come in good time you will find your faithful Beast dead.

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**Who acts:** you, two months, your · **What happens:** remember, come back, be, have, repent, not come in · **To what, where:** promise, cause, faithful Beast

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, two months, your), 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:pg503:16:18
# text = But remember your promise and come back when the two months are over, or you may have cause to repent it, for if you do not come in good time you will find your faithful Beast dead.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
19	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	repent	repent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
36	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	Beast	Beast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | imperative | you *not said here* | your promise |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent promise=Theme |
| 2 | **come back** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | the two months |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | may | you | cause |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient |
| 5 | **repent** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | cause |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **come in** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **find** | future | you | your faithful Beast |  |  | time | dead *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Topic |
| 8 | **promise** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication 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 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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