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title: And in case you should have forgotten, I will take these seven tongu… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And in case you should have forgotten, I will take these seven tongues with me so that when I bring them forth you may know that I am really he who slew the serpent.’ Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 20

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And in case you should have forgotten, I will take these seven tongues with me so that when I bring them forth you may know that I am really he who slew the serpent.’

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** forget, take, bring, know, slay · **To what, where:** seven tongues, tongues, serpent

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. 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:pg5615:23:20
# text = And in case you should have forgotten, I will take these seven tongues with me so that when I bring them forth you may know that I am really he who slew the serpent.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	7	mark	_	_
3	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	fixed	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	21	mark	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
29	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	reparandum	_	_
30	really	really	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | should · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | future | I | this seven tongues |  |  |  | with me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | present | I | tongues *= tongue* |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | may | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **slay** | past | I | the serpent |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=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 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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