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description: See, now, the reward of your folly; for your greater punishment I will not boil you all together, but one after the other, so that he that survives may witness the dire afflictions of his unfortunate companions.’ Who acts: you, I, Thief, your. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The B
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 59

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See, now, the reward of your folly; for your greater punishment I will not boil you all together, but one after the other, so that he that survives may witness the dire afflictions of his unfortunate companions.’

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**Who acts:** you, I, Thief, your · **What happens:** see, not boil, survive, reward, punish, afflict · **To what, where:** reward, you, witness, folly, unfortunate companions

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. 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, Thief, your), 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:pg540:8:59
# text = See, now, the reward of your folly; for your greater punishment I will not boil you all together, but one after the other, so that he that survives may witness the dire afflictions of his unfortunate companions.’
1	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nmod:unmarked	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	33	mark	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	obj	_	_
33	survives	survive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
34	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	dire	dire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	afflictions	affliction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | the reward of your folly |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **boil** | future | I | you |  |  |  | for your greater punishment; together *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent you=Patient for punishment=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **survive** | present | Thief | witness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reward** |  |  | your folly |  |  |  |  | nom reward «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **punish** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **afflict** |  |  | Thief's unfortunate companions |  |  |  |  | nom affliction «state 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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