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title: ‘Well, if you are resolved to free me, listen to my advice. — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Well, if you are resolved to free me, listen to my advice. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 8

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‘Well, if you are resolved to free me, listen to my advice.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** resolve, listen · **To what, where:** you

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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), 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:pg5615:23:8
# text = ‘Well, if you are resolved to free me, listen to my advice.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  | free *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **listen** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to my advice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to advice=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 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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