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title: ‘Many have passed by seeking those treasures, but none have ever com… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Many have passed by seeking those treasures, but none have ever come back; and you will never come back either, unless you mark my words. Who acts: none, you, my. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 64

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‘Many have passed by seeking those treasures, but none have ever come back; and you will never come back either, unless you mark my words.

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**Who acts:** none, you, my · **What happens:** pass, seek, come back, not come back, mark, word · **To what, where:** Many, treasures, words

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, you, my), 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:pg5615:20:64
# text = ‘Many have passed by seeking those treasures, but none have ever come back; and you will never come back either, unless you mark my words.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	14	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	mark	mark	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | present · perfect · passive |  | Many |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 2 | **seek** | gerund |  | that treasures |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
| 3 | **come back** | present | none |  |  |  | ever |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **come back** | future | you |  |  |  |  | either *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **mark** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | my words |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Destination |
| 6 | **word** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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