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title: Go then once more, and whoever at the end of a year can bring back t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Go then once more, and whoever at the end of a year can bring back the loveliest princess shall be married to her, and shall, without further delay, receive the crown, for my successor must certainly be married.” Who acts: you, whoever. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White C
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 34

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Go then once more, and whoever at the end of a year can bring back the loveliest princess shall be married to her, and shall, without further delay, receive the crown, for my successor must certainly be married.”

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**Who acts:** you, whoever · **What happens:** go, bring back, marry, receive · **To what, where:** end, loveliest princess, console, crown, successor

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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, whoever), 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:pg503:24:34
# text = Go then once more, and whoever at the end of a year can bring back the loveliest princess shall be married to her, and shall, without further delay, receive the crown, for my successor must certainly be married.”
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
7	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	without	without	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	receive	receive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
37	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
38	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	successor	successor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
41	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bring back** | can | whoever |  |  |  | at the end of a year |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **marry** | shall · passive |  | the loveliest princess | console |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to she=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **receive** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the crown |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme |
| 5 | **marry** | must · passive |  | my successor |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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