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title: “Fail not to bring it to me presently,” said Blue Beard. — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Fail not to bring it to me presently,” said Blue Beard. Who acts: Fail, Blue Beard. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 33

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“Fail not to bring it to me presently,” said Blue Beard.

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**Who acts:** Fail, Blue Beard · **What happens:** not bring, say · **To what, where:** closet, Blue Beard · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fail, Blue Beard), 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:pg503:40:33
# text = “Fail not to bring it to me presently,” said Blue Beard.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
9	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Beard	Beard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bring** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Fail | closet | Blue Beard *= beard* |  |  | presently *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Blue Beard |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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