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title: Breathe upon the white side and your looks will not alter, but you w… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Breathe upon the white side and your looks will not alter, but you will grow better and happier day by day. Who acts: you, looks. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 31

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Breathe upon the white side and your looks will not alter, but you will grow better and happier day by day.

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**Who acts:** you, looks · **What happens:** breathe, not alter, grow

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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, looks), 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:pg540:35:31
# text = Breathe upon the white side and your looks will not alter, but you will grow better and happier day by day.
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	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	alter	alter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
17	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	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 white side | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **alter** | future | your looks |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | future | you |  |  |  | day | well *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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 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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