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title: Breathe upon the yellow side and you will become like the pretty she… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Breathe upon the yellow side and you will become like the pretty shepherdess you so much admire, and you will have won the love of the handsome shepherd whose picture I have already seen you studying with interest. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branc
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 30

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Breathe upon the yellow side and you will become like the pretty shepherdess you so much admire, and you will have won the love of the handsome shepherd whose picture I have already seen you studying with interest.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** breathe, become, admire, win, see, study · **To what, where:** pretty shepherdess, love, picture, handsome shepherd

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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:pg540:35:30
# text = Breathe upon the yellow side and you will become like the pretty shepherdess you so much admire, and you will have won the love of the handsome shepherd whose picture I have already seen you studying with interest.
1	Breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	much	much	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	admire	admire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
23	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	already	already	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	studying	study	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breathe** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the yellow side | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **become** | future | you |  |  |  |  | like the pretty shepherdess | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **admire** | infinitive | you | the pretty shepherdess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shepherdess=Stimulus |
| 4 | **win** | future · perfect | you | the love of the handsome shepherd  the handsome shepherd  picture's picture |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality |
| 5 | **see** | present · perfect | I | the handsome shepherd  the handsome shepherd  picture's picture's picture *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus |
| 6 | **study** | gerund | you |  |  |  |  | with interest | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **love** |  |  | the handsome shepherd  the handsome shepherd  the handsome shepherd's picture's picture |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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