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title: Set out as soon as you please; only promise me that you will come ba… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Set out as soon as you please; only promise me that you will come back, for I love you too much to be able to live without you.” Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 65

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Set out as soon as you please; only promise me that you will come back, for I love you too much to be able to live without you.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** set out, promise, come back, love, be, live · **To what, where:** me, you

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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:pg503:31:65
# text = Set out as soon as you please; only promise me that you will come back, for I love you too much to be able to live without you.”
1	Set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	promise	promise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	without	without	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **come back** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **love** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **live** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without you | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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