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title: But go back now and rest, I shall see you again by and by.” — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But go back now and rest, I shall see you again by and by.” Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 73

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But go back now and rest, I shall see you again by and by.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** go back, rest, see · **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 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, I), 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:pg503:16:73
# text = But go back now and rest, I shall see you again by and by.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	rest	rest	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **rest** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | shall | I | you |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

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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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