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title: “If you will be good enough to plant me by my comrades again, I can… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “If you will be good enough to plant me by my comrades again, I can tell you where your pinks are at this moment--hidden in Bruno’s bed!” Who acts: you, cabbage, pinks. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 59

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“If you will be good enough to plant me by my comrades again, I can tell you where your pinks are at this moment--hidden in Bruno’s bed!”

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**Who acts:** you, cabbage, pinks · **What happens:** be, plant, tell, hide · **To what, where:** cabbage, you, moment, bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cabbage, pinks), 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:pg503:22:59
# text = “If you will be good enough to plant me by my comrades again, I can tell you where your pinks are at this moment--hidden in Bruno’s bed!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	plant	plant	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	pinks	pink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	Bruno	Bruno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’s	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | enough, good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **plant** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the cabbage *= cabbage* |  |  | again | by my comrades | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme by comrade=Destination |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can | the cabbage *= cabbage* |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | your pinks |  |  |  | at this moment |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hide** *in a quote* | participle |  | this moment *not said here* |  | Bruno's bed |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |

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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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