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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 59

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But don’t be concerned, let what will be devised against you; be persuaded that I will deliver you out of all the snares that shall be laid for you.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** do, not be, let, devise, persuade, deliver · **To what, where:** you, snares

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3. 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:pg503:51:59
# text = But don’t be concerned, let what will be devised against you; be persuaded that I will deliver you out of all the snares that shall be laid for you.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	concerned	concerned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	devised	devise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	_
12	against	against	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	snares	snare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | concerned *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **devise** | future · passive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against you | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: what=Patient |
| 5 | **persuade** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 6 | **deliver** | future | I | you |  | all snares |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent you=Theme out snare=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **lay** | shall · passive |  | all snares |  |  |  | for you | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for you=Beneficiary |

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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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