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title: Only tell me that you wish it, and I will give up for ever all thoug… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Only tell me that you wish it, and I will give up for ever all thought of being king, and will stay here with you always.” Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 16

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Only tell me that you wish it, and I will give up for ever all thought of being king, and will stay here with you always.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** tell, wish, give up, be, stay · **To what, where:** me, kindness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. 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:pg503:24:16
# text = Only tell me that you wish it, and I will give up for ever all thought of being king, and will stay here with you always.”
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
28	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wish** | present | you | kindness |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 3 | **give up** | future | I |  |  |  |  | for all thought | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of king | tree rules |
| 5 | **stay** | future | you *not said here* |  |  | here |  | with you; always *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=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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